Intermediate
Python
Web scraping
Twitter Scraper
a simple Twitter scraper using Python and web scraping techniques
Twitter is a popular social media platform where users can post short messages, called tweets, and interact with others. As a data scientist or developer, you may want to analyze the content and sentiment of tweets for a particular topic or user.
Create a Twitter Scraper
Requirements
- A way to scrape tweets from a specific user or hashtag
- A way to extract relevant information from the tweets (e.g. text, hashtags, mentions, etc.)
- A way to store the scraped tweets in a format suitable for further analysis (e.g. CSV, JSON, etc.)
Bonus
- Can you add a feature that allows users to specify a date range for the tweets to be scraped?
- Can you add a feature that performs sentiment analysis on the scraped tweets and stores the results?