[Air-L] ScraperWiki

Libby Hemphill libbyh at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 14:47:08 PDT 2014


Roya,

I wrote some Python scripts to grab user timelines you could try:
https://github.com/casmlab/user-timeline-tools

I can try to help troubleshoot, and you're welcome to submit issues via
GitHub.

Libby


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Sanjay Sharma <sanjay.sharma11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Roya
>
> For collecting (and analysing) tweets, you could try the free Chorus
> software: http://www.chorusanalytics.co.uk/
> It runs as standalone software in a Windows-based environment - no
> server required. And it can collect tweets from individual users (as
> well as search terms including hashtags etc).
>
> For an example of how Chorus has been applied to a project exploring
> racialized hashtags, see:
> http://www.darkmatter101.org/wiki/notracist_twitter
>
> best regards
> Sanjay Sharma
> Brunel University, UK
> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/staff-profiles/sanjay-sharma
> twitter: @sanjay_digital
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Roya
> M. Moussapour
> > Sent: 03 June 2014 21:18
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: [Air-L] ScraperWiki
> >
> > Hi all -
> >
> > I'm doing a research project at Bowdoin College and trying to use
> ScraperWiki to gather tweets. ScraperWiki makes it very easy to gather
> tweets from all users on Twitter, but I'm looking to limit the data set to
> specific users. Is there a simple way to do this? If not - is there another
> program that will collect the data in a more streamlined way?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Roya Moussapour
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