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Deleted tweets monitoring

This is a collection of tools to monitor deleted tweets, automate screenshoting, and archiving.

  • streaming.py and save_to_db.py work together to grab a real-time streamed timeline from Twitter and save all the results in a database.
  • All the tweets in the database are then screenshot by screenshot.py
  • Finally, the monitoring.py worker crawls through the database and checks if the tweets have been deleted.
  • I included get_user_ids.py, as the Twitter API often requires the ID, and not the screen name (eg not "@basilesimon").

Dependencies and install

  • git clone this repo
  • wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py then sudo python get-pip.py
  • pip install tweepy
  • pip install MySQL-python (but you might need to apt-get install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev. I read it's easy to install on Max OS, with Homebrew)
  • pip install needle
  • apt-get install mysql-server nodejs-legacy nodejs npm
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev
  • sudo npm -g install phantomjs
  • You will need a comma-separated list of user IDs, or a list of keywords you want to track. See all the other options in the Docs.
  • Obviously, you will also need your developer access keys and things. Pop them in the placeholders accordingly in each file.

Comma-separated list of user IDs

I use the wonderful t from sferik, a command line tool for twitter shenanigans. Usually, I have an account following all the people I want to track - but it also works with lists.

  • $ t followings [account] > list.csv
  • python get_user_ids.py > ids.csv

Run the program

Then to run it:

  • Run streaming.py. Constantly. If it doesn't run, you're not saving the tweets.
  • Run nosetests screenshot.py --with-save-baseline --nocapture periodically to grab the screenshots.
  • Run monitoring.py periodically to check for deleted tweets.

You might want to consider running all these with cron on a server. Just saying.

Integration with ElasticSearch

  • wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.3.4.tar.gz
  • tar -xvf elasticsearch-1.3.4.tar.gz
  • sudo apt-get install default-jre default-jdk to install Java
  • Start ES instance with bin/elasticsearch in the directory where you extracted ElasticSearch

Then uncomment line 2 and 34-40 in save_to_db.py

License

PDD/ Unlicense