Python Web Scraping: Count number of tweets by a given Twitter account
Write a Python program to count number of tweets by a given Twitter account.
Sample Solution:
Python Code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
handle = input('Input your account name on Twitter: ')
temp = requests.get('https://twitter.com/'+handle)
bs = BeautifulSoup(temp.text,'lxml')
try:
tweet_box = bs.find('li',{'class':'ProfileNav-item ProfileNav-item--tweets is-active'})
tweets= tweet_box.find('a').find('span',{'class':'ProfileNav-value'})
print("{} tweets {} number of tweets.".format(handle,tweets.get('data-count')))
except:
print('Account name not found...')
Sample Output:
Input your account name on Twitter: @prasanta @prasanta tweets 36 number of tweets.
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