The original purpose of this code is to be a Social Media Search Engine, or SMearch, that key word searches through the discovered items provided by snscrape and allows a filtering for specific types, ex: posts or profile names. The UI will then provide it's results in a search engine results format.
However, with a short amount of time to complete each sprint, the objective has changed to just be a program that will print out the screen names of Twitter/X accounts that match the specified keyword.
Project Roadmap:
- Find related repository and evaluate it
- Test repository
- Pull portions of the code that support the new objective of this program to a seperate .py file
- Use the Twitter/X developer portal to have API credentials
- Complete and test code.
- Possibly create a UI for the code if it works.
- Possibly add a feature that will print out the text of the tweets that contain the specified keyword
- Retest the code if the previous 2 proposed additions are implemented.
- Instagram: user profiles, hashtags, and locations
- Mastodon: user profiles and toots (single or thread)
- Reddit: users, subreddits, and searches (via Pushshift)
- Telegram: channels
- Twitter: users, user profiles, hashtags, searches (live tweets, top tweets, and users), tweets (single or surrounding thread), list posts, communities, and trends
- VKontakte: user profiles
- Weibo (Sina Weibo): user profiles
Requirements
- snscrape requires Python 3.8 or higher. The Python package dependencies are installed automatically when you install snscrape.
- Note that one of the dependencies, lxml, also requires libxml2 and libxslt to be installed.