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Guide to use TweetsRetrieval

The TweetsRetrieval-1.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar is a Java-based tool to download full tweets content using tweet ids which can download up to 72K tweets per hour. That is very fast!

Ref: TweetsRetrieval-1.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar in this folder is downloaded from RESOURCE # 8

Steps

1. Put Twitter Keys in the twitter.properties

** Go to Twitter Developer Site to apply if you have not got these in hand.

consumer.key=<YOURS>
consumer.secret=<YOURS>
access.token=<YOURS>
access.token.secret=<YOURS>
2. Prepare a list of tweets ids in sample_tweet_ids.txt organized line by line like:
1248552109240283136
1239381272583118849
...
3. Run the following command to obtain the full content of tweets.

** You may need to have Java environment ready before run this command

java -classpath TweetsRetrieval-1.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar qa.qcri.tweetsretrieval.TweetsRetrievalTool sample_tweet_ids.txt sample_output.txt
4. Aha, just enjoy the show for a while, then you will find the tweets in sample_output.txt