Designing a Twitter Data Extractor Tool Using Python — Part 1 (Intro)

General view of the design

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This will be the second tool that I will publish as open source after the youtube-views-tracker. I am not good at selling these at all, so maybe someone can benefit from this tool.

This command-line tool extracts user and tweet data from Twitter and reports the results to CSV, Excel, Google Sheets documents or MongoDB, SQLite databases.

Supported Features

• Extract single/multiple user data.
• Extract the user’s friends/followers data.
• Extract tweets data for a user.
• Extract tweets data for a search keyword.
• Report results to CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets documents.
• Report results to MongoDB or SQLite databases.

I will explain the design in four posts. This post will be about general structure.

The main function in the twitter_data_extractor.py module is the entry point of the tool.