Tweepy has done a good job extracting all other information (except hashtags) I need by applying the tweepy.Cursor and api.search methods (as shown below). I know from the documentation that Hashtags are under this structure Status > entities > hashtags. And I tried to locate (below) the "hashtags" directory within the methods but to no avail:
print "tweet", dir(tweet)
print "////////////////"
print "tweet._api", dir(tweet._api)
print "////////////////"
print "tweet.text", dir(tweet.text)
print "////////////////"
print "tweet.entities", dir(tweet.entities)
print "////////////////"
print "tweet.author", dir(tweet.author)
print "////////////////"
print "tweet.user", dir(tweet.user)
My code is here:
import tweepy
ckey = ""
csecret = ""
atoken = ""
asecret = ""
OAUTH_KEYS = {'consumer_key':ckey, 'consumer_secret':csecret,
'access_token_key':atoken, 'access_token_secret':asecret}
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(OAUTH_KEYS['consumer_key'], OAUTH_KEYS['consumer_secret'])
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=('"good book"'), since='2014-09-16', until='2014-09-17').items(5):
print "Name:", tweet.author.name.encode('utf8')
print "Screen-name:", tweet.author.screen_name.encode('utf8')
print "Tweet created:", tweet.created_at
print "Tweet:", tweet.text.encode('utf8')
print "Retweeted:", tweet.retweeted
print "Favourited:", tweet.favorited
print "Location:", tweet.user.location.encode('utf8')
print "Time-zone:", tweet.user.time_zone
print "Geo:", tweet.geo
print "//////////////////"
Get the hashtags
from the entities
dictionary:
print tweet.entities.get('hashtags')