Tweetpy is a software developed in Python for the automatic extraction from Twitter of posts containing a maximum of 5 hashtags relating to a single user profile. The information extracted is: - description: the text of the tweet with the related hashtags on the topic - likes: number of likes that particular tweet has received - retweets: how many times that tweet has been shared by other users - date: the day in which the tweet was published Tweetpy extracts all hashtags within a time frame allowed by Twitter. As an example, the extraction of hashtags relating to Coronavirus is used, for example: #Covid, # Covid-19, #Coronavirus, #pandemic and #swabs.
Tweetpy: a software to extract tweets related to a single Twitter user
A Lo Duca;A Marchetti
2020
Abstract
Tweetpy is a software developed in Python for the automatic extraction from Twitter of posts containing a maximum of 5 hashtags relating to a single user profile. The information extracted is: - description: the text of the tweet with the related hashtags on the topic - likes: number of likes that particular tweet has received - retweets: how many times that tweet has been shared by other users - date: the day in which the tweet was published Tweetpy extracts all hashtags within a time frame allowed by Twitter. As an example, the extraction of hashtags relating to Coronavirus is used, for example: #Covid, # Covid-19, #Coronavirus, #pandemic and #swabs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
