Python scripts for geocoding tweets and for downloading images embedded in tweets. Supports Python 2.x and 3.x.
Uses 'search/tweets' Twitter resource to get tweets, geocode and embedded photos.
Example:
> python -u -m TwitterGeoPics.SearchOldTweets -words love hate -location nyc
For help:
> python -u -m TwitterGeoPics.SearchOldTweets -h
Uses 'statuses/filter' Twitter resource to get tweets, geocode and embedded photos.
Example:
> python -u -m TwitterGeoPics.StreamNewTweets -words love hate -location nyc
For help:
> python -u -m TwitterGeoPics.StreamNewTweets -h
See TwitterAPI documentation.
The geocoder uses Google Maps API to get latitude and longitude from a human-readable address.
All geocode is cached to avoid duplicate requests. Geocode requests are throttled to avoid exceeding the rate limit. See Geocoder.py for more information.
- TwitterAPI
- pygeocoder
- Fridge