Switched to stdout codec, and switched ignore to replace. This could be a teaching...
[twitter-api-cdsw-solutions] / twitter4.py
1 import tweepy
2 from twitter_authentication import CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
3
4 auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
5 auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
6
7 api = tweepy.API(auth)
8
9 # code to write the file
10 import codecs
11 output_file = codecs.open("MY_DATA.tsv", "w", "utf-8")
12
13 public_tweets = api.search("data science", count=10)
14
15 for tweet in public_tweets:
16     print(tweet.user.screen_name + "\t" + str(tweet.created_at) + "\t" + tweet.text, file=output_file)
17

Benjamin Mako Hill || Want to submit a patch?