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Simple Twitter Profile Analyzer

The goal of this simple python script is to analyze a Twitter profile through its tweets by detecting:

There are plenty of things that could be added to the script, feel free to contribute! 👍

Installation

⚠ First, update your API keys in the secrets.py file. To get API keys go to https://apps.twitter.com/

Python v2.7 or newer is required

You will need the following python packages installed: tweepy, ascii_graph, tqdm, numpy

If you have pipenv installed you can just run:

$ pipenv install

Otherwise you can use:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: tweets_analyzer.py -n <screen_name> [options]

Simple Twitter Profile Analyzer

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l N, --limit N       limit the number of tweets to retreive (default=1000)
  -n screen_name, --name screen_name
                        target screen_name
  -f FILTER, --filter FILTER
                        filter by source (ex. -f android will get android
                        tweets only)
  --no-timezone         removes the timezone auto-adjustment (default is UTC)
  --utc-offset UTC_OFFSET
                        manually apply a timezone offset (in seconds)
  --friends             will perform quick friends analysis based on lang and
                        timezone (rate limit = 15 requests)
  -e path/to/file, --export path/to/file
                        exports results to file
  -j, --json            outputs json
  -s, --save            saves tweets to tweets/{twitter_handle}/{yyyy-mm-
                        dd_HH-MM-SS}.json
  --no-color            disables colored output
  --no-retweets         does not evaluate retweets

Example output

Twitter account activity

License

GNU GPLv3

If this tool has been useful for you, feel free to thank me by buying me a coffee

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