Scrape User Location from Twitter

Question

I am trying to scrape latitude and longitude of user from Twitter with respect to user names. The user name list is a csv file with more than 50 names in one input file. Th

Answer 1

Assuming that you just want to get the location of the user that is put up in his/her profile page, you can just use the API.get_user from Tweepy. Below is the working code.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function

#Import the necessary methods from tweepy library
import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler


#user credentials to access Twitter API 
access_token = "your access token here"
access_token_secret = "your access token secret key here"
consumer_key = "your consumer key here"
consumer_secret = "your consumer secret key here"


def get_user_details(username):
        userobj = api.get_user(username)
        return userobj


if __name__ == '__main__':
    #authenticating the app (https://apps.twitter.com/)
    auth = tweepy.auth.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)

    #for list of usernames, put them in iterable and call the function
    username = 'thinkgeek'
    userOBJ = get_user_details(username)
    print(userOBJ.location)

Note: This is a crude implementation. Write a proper sleeper function to obey Twitter API access limits.