2. Collecting Tweets - wywfalcon/twitter-healthcare-analysis GitHub Wiki

#Twitter Data Collection

1. Sign up for a Twitter account
2. Create an application
3. Go to Twitter-Healthcare-Analysis\src\Twitter-Data-Collection\resources and save your credential keys in crendentials.json

[
	{
		"consumer_key" : "your_key",
		"consumer_secret" : "your_secret",
		"access_token" : "your_token",
		"access_token_secret" : "your_token_secret"		
	}
]

4. Select tags to download and enter them one per line in tagList.txt like so... Make sure the list isn't too long!

#cancer
#ebola
...

Streaming new tweets

1. Run stream_tweets_main.py

$ stream_tweets_main.py [destinationFolder] [credentialFolder]

Downloading old tweets

1. Run search_tweets_main.py

$ search_tweets_main.py [destinationFolder] [credentialFolder]