Create a tweet archive tool

Here’s a basic Tweet Archive Tool in Python using the tweepy library. It fetches a user’s tweets and stores them in a local .csv file.

Features:

• Fetches tweets from a specified username

• Saves tweet content, timestamp, and ID

• Supports Twitter API v2 (via bearer token)

Requirements:

• Twitter Developer account

• Bearer Token (from Twitter API)

• Python 3.x

• tweepy and pandas libraries

Code:

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import tweepy
import pandas as pd

# Twitter API credentials (use your Bearer Token)
BEARER_TOKEN = "YOUR_TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN"

# Initialize client
client = tweepy.Client(bearer_token=BEARER_TOKEN, wait_on_rate_limit=True)

def get_user_id(username):
    try:
        user = client.get_user(username=username)
        return user.data.id
    except Exception as e:
        print("Error fetching user ID:", e)
        return None

def archive_tweets(username, max_results=1000):
    user_id = get_user_id(username)
    if not user_id:
        return

    tweets_data = []
    pagination_token = None
    total_fetched = 0

    while total_fetched < max_results:
        try:
            response = client.get_users_tweets(
                id=user_id,
                max_results=min(100, max_results - total_fetched),
                pagination_token=pagination_token,
                tweet_fields=["created_at", "text", "id"]
            )

            if not response.data:
                break

            for tweet in response.data:
                tweets_data.append({
                    "id": tweet.id,
                    "created_at": tweet.created_at,
                    "text": tweet.text
                })
                total_fetched += 1

            pagination_token = response.meta.get("next_token")
            if not pagination_token:
                break

        except Exception as e:
            print("Error fetching tweets:", e)
            break

    df = pd.DataFrame(tweets_data)
    df.to_csv(f"{username}_tweet_archive.csv", index=False)
    print(f"Archived {len(df)} tweets to '{username}_tweet_archive.csv'.")

# Example usage:
archive_tweets("elonmusk", max_results=500)

Notes:

• Replace "YOUR_TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN" with your actual bearer token.

• The Twitter API currently limits tweet retrieval to the most recent ~3200 tweets per user.

Would you like a web-based version or a GUI version of this tool as well?