DigitalGeographyLab/tweetsearcher: A Python tool to download tweets using Academic Research credentials

A Python tool to download tweets using Academic Research credentials and the API v2 developed at Digital Geography Lab. This tool enables researchers to download Tweets with their Academic Research access Twitter credentials. The tool collects tweets iteratively day-by-day or in bulk and outputs pickled dataframes, csv files, or geopackages. Development of the tool took place in the Digital Geography Lab at the University of Helsinki. This tool is based on the work of Seija Sirkiä, who developed a similar tool to use with Twitter's Premium API, we're super thankful for her contribution.

Why does it exist?

It was made partly to promote open tools and open science, but there also seemed to be a need for a ready-made and (somewhat) easy-to-use tool to collect Twitter data for academic research.