Welcome to twittercrawler’s documentation!

This is a simple Twitter crawler in Python built on top of the popular Twython package. The main objective during development was to provide an API that ease Twitter data collection for events that span across multiple days.

General information:

• Getting started
  • Introduction
  • Install
  • Twitter API keys
  • Examples
  • Run tests
• Crawler documentation
  • a.) Search for events
  • b.) Search for user data

API documentation:

• twittercrawler.crawlers module
• twittercrawler.data_io module
• twittercrawler.base module
• twittercrawler.scheduler module

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index