rlugojr / twitter-tools

A collection of tools to monitor deleted tweets, automate screenshotting, and archiving.

Deleted tweets monitoring

This is a collection of tools to monitor deleted tweets, automate screenshoting, and archiving.

• streaming.py and save_to_db.py work together to grab a real-time streamed timeline from Twitter and save all the results in a database.
• All the tweets in the database are then screenshot by screenshot.py
• Finally, the monitoring.py worker crawls through the database and checks if the tweets have been deleted.
• I included get_user_ids.py, as the Twitter API often requires the ID, and not the screen name (eg not "@basilesimon").

Dependencies and install

• git clone this repo
• wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py then sudo python get-pip.py
• pip install tweepy
• pip install MySQL-python (but you might need to apt-get install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev. I read it's easy to install on Max OS, with Homebrew)
• pip install needle
• apt-get install mysql-server nodejs-legacy nodejs npm
• sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev
• sudo npm -g install phantomjs
• You will need a comma-separated list of user IDs, or a list of keywords you want to track. See all the other options in the Docs.
• Obviously, you will also need your developer access keys and things. Pop them in the placeholders accordingly in each file.

Comma-separated list of user IDs

I use the wonderful t from sferik, a command line tool for twitter shenanigans. Usually, I have an account following all the people I want to track - but it also works with lists.

• $ t followings [account] > list.csv
• python get_user_ids.py > ids.csv

Run the program

Then to run it:

• Run streaming.py. Constantly. If it doesn't run, you're not saving the tweets.
• Run nosetests screenshot.py --with-save-baseline --nocapture periodically to grab the screenshots.
• Run monitoring.py periodically to check for deleted tweets.

You might want to consider running all these with cron on a server. Just saying.

Integration with ElasticSearch

• wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.3.4.tar.gz
• tar -xvf elasticsearch-1.3.4.tar.gz
• sudo apt-get install default-jre default-jdk to install Java
• Start ES instance with bin/elasticsearch in the directory where you extracted ElasticSearch

Then uncomment line 2 and 34-40 in save_to_db.py

License

PDD/ Unlicense