dump_tweets.R a tool for saving tweets and user data to a database
2014-01-20
dump_tweets.R is a tool for searching tweets and (recursively) crawl users from twitter: Data are then saved to a MySQL database and can finally be exported to .RData files dump_tweets.R is sponsorized by Associazione Rospo Example:
Rscript search.R -q “#opensource”
2014-01-20 20:53:43 INFO::Connecting to TWITTER… 2014-01-20 20:53:43 INFO::Connecting to database=twitter, host=localhost with user=root 2014-01-20 20:53:43 INFO::using UTF8 code 2014-01-20 20:53:43 INFO::Searching for q=#opensource, sinceID=0 2014-01-20 20:53:57 INFO::Found 191 tweets 2014-01-20 20:53:57 INFO::maxID=425355265857187841 2014-01-20 20:53:57 INFO::Saving data to tweet table… 2014-01-20 20:53:58 INFO::saving data to search_results table…