nltk.twitter.json2csv()¶

nltk.twitter.json2csv(fp, outfile, fields, encoding='utf8', errors='replace', gzip_compress=False)[source]¶

Extract selected fields from a file of line-separated JSON tweets and write to a file in CSV format.

This utility function allows a file of full tweets to be easily converted to a CSV file for easier processing. For example, just TweetIDs or just the text content of the Tweets can be extracted.

Additionally, the function allows combinations of fields of other Twitter objects (mainly the users, see below).

For Twitter entities (e.g. hashtags of a Tweet), and for geolocation, see json2csv_entities

Parameters:

infile (str) – The name of the file containing full tweets outfile (str) – The name of the text file where results should be written fields (list) – The list of fields to be extracted. Useful examples are ‘id_str’ for the tweetID and ‘text’ for the text of the tweet. See <https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets> for a full list of fields. e. g.: [‘id_str’], [‘id’, ‘text’, ‘favorite_count’, ‘retweet_count’] Additonally, it allows IDs from other Twitter objects, e. g., [‘id’, ‘text’, ‘user.id’, ‘user.followers_count’, ‘user.friends_count’] error – Behaviour for encoding errors, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#codec-base-classes gzip_compress – if True, output files are compressed with gzip