twiglet

A project written to easily retrieve Twitter data, namely trending topics and hashtags without the use of the Twitter API

Details

Twitter does provide an API in order to access statistics, data and tweets. However this requires a validated developer account. This project gets around that limitation by retrieving and sorting data from third party scrapers and provides easy methods (as outlined in main.py) to retrieve that information / integrate it into another Python project.

Requirements

This package assumes a Python3 environment, with requirements listed in the "requirements.txt" file for PIP3, you can run the following to get the dependancies.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Components

• twiglet: A manager class to help provide options for, and a basic CLI to, an instance of site.
• site: Gets tweet trending data from the selected source and reformats it.

Examples of python usage

• Get trending topics and hashtags worldwide.

    user_agent = twiglet.set_user_agent()
    source = twiglet.set_source()
    site_data = site(source,user_agent)
    
    print("Trending Topics")
    print(site_data.get_trending(),"\n")
    print("Trending Hashtags")
    print(site_data.get_hashtags(),"\n")

• Further example of basic CLI interface for fetching trends implemented in main.py