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A twitter scraper that makes use of Tweepy API to scrape tweets from a particular tag and stores them in a database using mongodb.
It needs a Twitter developer account and MongoDB installed.

To Run:

  • Enter the credentials from the Twitter dev account.
  • The tweets are stored in the MongoDB under as scrapped_tweets, which can be modified as per needs.
  • The maximum number of tweets and the tag to be collected from can also be changed in the script accordingly.
  • By default, they are 5000 and #blacklivesmatter respectively.