This is a Python 2.7 CLI utility for fetching tweeter-retweeter relationships based on a hashtag. The app takes care of making the calls into necessary endpoints to construct the resulting relationships and throttling the API requests.
The app was developed for a one-off purpose for this one specific use case. If you have any suggestions for further development or you want to report a bug, please do open an issue. You can contribute by opening a pull request.
Twitter APIs that are used by the program need to be provided user-specific keys and secrets. These are provided to envvars.txt file in this format:
consumer_key=...
consumer_secret=...
access_token_key=...
access_token_secret=...
You can acquire the credentials from Twitter Application Management.
I recommend using a Python virtual environment. Then you simply do pip install -r requirements inside an active virtual environment.
After providing the credentials and installing the packages, you should be set up for running the tool.
python app.py <hashtag> <# of tweets> <separator> <language code> <filter out not retweeted (True or False)>
You can also put arguments into args.txt file (for Windows GUI user convenience).
Running the program will result in a results.csv file containing the data in the following format:
tweeter,retweeter
user1,user2
...