How to scrape twitter data from specific years and specific locations using Twint

Question

import twint 
import nest_asyncio
import pandas as pd


nest_asyncio.apply()

c = twint.Config()
c.Search = "Covid-19"
twint.run.Search(c)

The above code collects tweets that have the word covid-19 but I want the tweets only from last year and a specific location?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '21 at 10:31

1

You can add a time range in the search string as follows:

searchstr = "(Covid-19) until:2021-02-19 since:2021-02-17)"
c.Search = searchstr

answered Apr 07 '21 at 10:31

elyptikus

NameError: name 'c' is not defined – Yoshith Kotla May 25 '21 at 06:54
Did you define `c = twint.Config()`, as in the question? – elyptikus May 27 '21 at 09:25
Test show this no longer works. Twitter has changed something. – NonReformed Bayesianist May 29 '22 at 20:56
Thanks for your contribution. Do you get an error message? What did Twitter change? – elyptikus May 31 '22 at 06:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '21 at 23:59

0

To specify a location, you may add to your search string

geocode:latitude,longitude,radius

For example:

geocode:43.913723261972855,-72.54272478125,150km

answered May 24 '21 at 23:59

Lenka Čížková

2 Answers2