Intermediate

Python

Web scraping

Twitter Splash screen

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?