Twitter API Scrapper

#Zack Beucler
#https://github.com/ckoepp/TwitterSearch
#https://pypi.org/project/TwitterSearch/

'''
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX READ ME XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- install required packages
  - pip install TwitterSearch
- Make a developer Account with Twitter (developer.twitter.com) and get your:
    1. consumer_key
    2. consumer_secret
    3. access_token
    4. access_token_secret
  - Input your four keys ^^^^ into line 36-39 as strings
'''


from TwitterSearch import *



def runSearch(keyword):
  print("-----------------------------------")

  while keyword == "EXIT":
    print("Bye!")
    return

  try:
      tso = TwitterSearchOrder() # create a TwitterSearchOrder object
      tso.set_keywords([keyword]) # let's define all words we would like to have a look for
      tso.set_language('en') # we want to see english tweets only
      tso.set_include_entities(False) # and don't give us all those entity information

      # it's about time to create a TwitterSearch object with our secret tokens
      ts = TwitterSearch(
          consumer_key = 'consumer_key',
          consumer_secret = 'consumer_secret',
          access_token = 'access_token',
          access_token_secret = 'access_token_secret'
      )


      # this is where the API data is collected and sorted for printing
      count = 0
      for tweet in ts.search_tweets_iterable(tso):
        if count == 250:
          print("250 Tweets ==> Max Limit Reached, Program stopping")
          return
        else:
          print( '@%s tweeted: %s' % ( tweet['user']['screen_name'], tweet['text'] ) )
          count = count + 1
          print()
          print("#################################################")
          print()

      print(count, " Total tweets")


  except TwitterSearchException as e: # take care of all those ugly errors if there are some
      print(e)


########################################################################################################



def main():
  keyword = ""
  while keyword != "EXIT":
    print()
    print("TWITTER POST SCRAPPER")
    print("### WARNING ###")
    print("### Popular keywords (EX: IDK) will bring up a fuck ton of results, press control+c to stop the program ### ")
    keyword = input("Please enter a keyword (Type EXIT to leave program): ")
    runSearch(keyword)
main()