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import csv

import tweepy

# Twitter API credentials

consumer_key = ""

consumer_secret = ""

access_key = ""

access_secret = ""

def get_all_tweets(screen_name: str) -> None:

# authorize twitter, initialize tweepy

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

# initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets

alltweets = []

# make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)

new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=screen_name, count=200)

# save most recent tweets

alltweets.extend(new_tweets)

# save the id of the oldest tweet less one

oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1

# keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab

while len(new_tweets) > 0:

print(f"getting tweets before {oldest}")

# all subsequent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates

new_tweets = api.user_timeline(

screen_name=screen_name, count=200, max_id=oldest

)

# save most recent tweets

alltweets.extend(new_tweets)

# update the id of the oldest tweet less one

oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1

print(f"...{len(alltweets)} tweets downloaded so far")

# transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv

outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text] for tweet in alltweets]

# write the csv

with open(f"new_{screen_name}_tweets.csv", "w") as f:

writer = csv.writer(f)

writer.writerow(["id", "created_at", "text"])

writer.writerows(outtweets)

if __name__ == "__main__":

# pass in the username of the account you want to download

get_all_tweets("FirePing32")