Twitter Image Downloader

Downloads images/photos uploaded on twitter from a given twitter handle.

Dependencies

This tool uses the Python tweepy library and wget package.

You can install requirements using requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Authorization Tokens

You will also need to create an app account on https://dev.twitter.com/apps to get authorization tokens

1. Sign in with your Twitter account
2. Create a new app.
3. Fill necessary details
4. Generate OAuth tokens for the app.

Following these steps and a successful app creation, you will recieve 3 tokens for your app, namely API_KEY, API_KEY_SECRET and BEARER_TOKEN.

Usage

• Edit the API_Tokens.py file and add these tokens you recieved in the previous step and save.

Using CLI

• Run using twitter_image_downloader.py [-h] [-H HANDLE] [-n [MAX_TWEETS]] [-t [{images,videos,gifs,all} ...]]

Examples:

python twitter_image_downloader.py --handle arsenal 
python twitter_image_downloader.py --handle arsenal --max-tweets 10 --type images,gifs

Using Interactive UI

1. Run the script (python twitter_image_downloader.py).
2. Enter the user's twitter handle (@<twitter_handle>) you want to download images from, followed by max. number of tweets you want to search for.
3. The images are downloaded inside a folder named twitter_images, in the folder named <user_handle>.

Example:

$ python twitter_image_downloader.py 

Twitter Image Downloader:
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Enter the twitter handle of the Account to download media from:  arsenal
Enter Max. number of tweets to search (default: 1000): 10
Enter type of media (images/gifs/videos/all) (default: images) gifs images

Fetching tweets.....
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