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15 changes: 11 additions & 4 deletions scrape.py
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# edit these three variables
user = 'realdonaldtrump'
start = datetime.datetime(2010, 1, 1) # year, month, day
end = datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 7) # year, month, day
end = datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 1) # year, month, day
dateinc = 50

# only edit these if you're having problems
delay = 1 # time to wait on each page load before reading the page
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def increment_day(date, i):
return date + datetime.timedelta(days=i)

for day in range(days):
day = 0
while day < days:
if(days-day>dateinc):
inc = dateinc
else:
inc = days-day
d1 = format_day(increment_day(start, 0))
d2 = format_day(increment_day(start, 1))
d2 = format_day(increment_day(start, inc))
url = form_url(d1, d2)
print(url)
print(d1)
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except NoSuchElementException:
print('no tweets on this day')

start = increment_day(start, 1)
start = increment_day(start, inc)
day=day+inc


try:
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