added script to download formatted tweets from a specific user (#50)

README.md

@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ python server.py
 ```
 
 
+* ### Tweetload
+Download latest tweets (default: up to 4000) from a specific twitter user. The script will create a file with one tweet per line, stripped from mentions, hashtags and links.
+<br>
+For that to work, create a json file with your twitter credentials (see source) and define the twitter user in source code.  
+```bash
+python3 tweetload.py
+```
+
+
 * ### Twitter_retweet_bot
 It is a simple script that retweets any hashtag provided in it. 
 ```bash
@@ -221,18 +230,19 @@ python shortener.py url1 url2 > file.txt
 
 ```
 
+
 * ### Video-downloader v1.1
 
 ### About
 
 This file allows the user to download videos off of the web.
 
-as of version 1 the user is able to download highquality videos as a playlist or single file as well as audio files from the supported 
+as of version 1 the user is able to download highquality videos as a playlist or single file as well as audio files from the supported
 
 websites given here http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html are supported.
 
 More features will be added in the future iterations of the project.
-a simple video downloader using youtube-dl Library, a starter script for making use 
+a simple video downloader using youtube-dl Library, a starter script for making use
 of youtube-dl.
 
 ## Requirements
@@ -334,6 +344,8 @@ The following people helped in creating the above content.
 * <a href="https://github.com/SuryaThiru" target="_blank">Surya K</a>
 * <a href="https://github.com/szepnapot" target="_blank">Peter L.</a>
 * <a href="https://github.com/ehnydeel" target="_blank">Andreas K.</a>
+* <a href="https://github.com/pr0me" target="_blank">Lukas S.</a>
 * <a href="https://github.com/iyanuashiri" target="_blank">Iyanu Ashiri</a>
 
+
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bin/tweetload.py

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import twitter
+import json
+import re
+
+# replace 'default' with twitter user
+user = 'default'
+# path to json file with your twitter credentials (see https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
+creds = 'creds.json'
+file_name = 'tweets.txt'
+
+
+def init_twitter():
+    # load twitter API tokens
+    with open(creds) as data_file:
+        data = json.load(data_file)
+
+    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=data["consumer_key"],
+                  consumer_secret=data["consumer_secret"],
+                  access_token_key=data["access_token_key"],
+                  access_token_secret=data["access_token_secret"])
+
+    return api
+
+
+def main():
+    if user == 'default':
+        print("Please define the twitter user's screenname to download content from in source code.")
+        return
+
+    api = init_twitter()
+
+    # get up to 4000 latest tweets
+    tweets = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=200)
+    curr_id = tweets[-1].id
+    for i in range(19):
+        tweets = tweets + api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=200, max_id=curr_id)
+        curr_id = tweets[-1].id
+
+    print("Tweets: " + str(len(tweets)))
+
+    # write tweets to file
+    with open(file_name, 'w') as file_o:
+        for tweet in tweets:
+            tweet_cont = tweet.text
+            # strip links
+            tweet_cont = re.sub(r'http\S+', '', tweet_cont)
+            # strip mentions
+            tweet_cont = re.sub(r'@\S+', '', tweet_cont)
+            # strip hashtags
+            tweet_cont = re.sub(r'#\S+', '', tweet_cont)
+            tweet_cont = tweet_cont.replace('RT: ', '')
+            tweet_cont = tweet_cont.replace('RT', '')
+            file_o.write(tweet_cont + '\n')
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()