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# Twitter_scraper_without_API

This code was developed to extract information from twitter without using API as there are a limitation and costs for using official twitter API. You can extract based on your keyword and time frame (in minutes). You can extract unlimitted number of tweets. 


## Pre-requests

 - Python 3.6+
 - Browsers(Firefox)

## Instalation 

you can install from source code using 

    git clone https://github.com/HamedMinaeizaeim/twitter_scraper_without_API.git
 and then run 
 

    Python setup.py install 
   or you can run 
   

    pip install -r requirements.txt
alternatively, you can install using **PyPl** : 

   

     pip install twitter_scraper_without_API
    




## How to use 

To use this library, you just need to import the TwitterScraper scraper class and then specify your keyword search. By default, it will return all tweets within a minute. You can change it to extract tweets in the last n minutes. Here is a code to do that: 

     from src.twitter_scraper_without_api import TwitterScraper
     twitter = TwitterScraper('bitcoin')
     twitter.last_n_mins = 3
     twitter.fetch_data()

## Export option

You can export data as json, panda (Dataframe) and csv

    df = twitter.store_data('dataFrame')
    csv = twitter.store_data('csv')
    json = twitter.store_data('json')


## Privacy

There is no issue with privacy in this library and search is based on publicly avaialble information