twitter-scraper-cli
v2.2.0
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Scrape tweets, optionally enrich them, and save them to mongo
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Twitter Scraper CLI
Command Line Lnterface for https://github.com/Volox/TwitterScraper
Usage
# Will pipe to the stdout the result
twitter-scraper-cli -q "#node"
# Will save the results to the specified mongo db/collection
twitter-scraper-cli -q "#node" -M ../mongo.json
# Will enrich each tweet with the full data from Twitter and pipe to the stdout the result
twitter-scraper-cli -q "#node" -T twitter.json
Options
Query
The query can be specified inline via the -q
argument, or using the -Q
flag and specifing the file containing the query.
| Flag | Long flag | Description | Required | Default | | ------ | -------------- | -------------------------- | :----------: | :-------------: | | -Q | --query-file | Twitter query file | Yes | N/D | | | | OR | | | | -q | --query | Twitter query | Yes | N/D |
Mongo options [Optional]
The mongo options can be specified in a json file or via command line arguments.
If either -M
or -d
flags are specified then the data will be saved in the
corresponding configuration.
| Flag | Long flag | Description | Required | Default |
| ------ | -------------- | -------------------------- | :----------: | :-------------: |
| -M | --mongo | Mongo configuration file | Yes | N/D |
| | | OR | | |
| -m | --host | Mongo host | No | localhost
|
| -p | --port | Mongo port | No | 27017
|
| -d | --database | Mongo database name | Yes | N/D |
| -c | --collection | Mongo collection name | No | tweets
|
Twitter options [Optional]
The Twitter options can be specified in a json file or via command line arguments.
If either -T
or all the other twitter flags (-k -s -t -y
) are specified then the data will be enriched with the full tweet info.
| Flag | Long flag | Description | Required | Default | | ------ | ---------------- | ----------------------------- | :----------: | :---------: | | -T | --twitter | Twitter config file | Yes | N/D | | | | OR | | | | -k | --key | Twitter key | Yes | N/D | | -s | --secret | Twitter secret | Yes | N/D | | -t | --token | Twitter access token | Yes | N/D | | -y | --token-secret | Twitter access token secret | Yes | N/D |
LICENSE
MIT