Snorre's "Log" implementation API + Analysis of datalog

[Myskovgaard]

Hi Everybody,

We have two questions in regards to Snorre's datalog file:

1. Logging file with API: We have tried to implement the 'logging code' from lecture 8 into our function that extracts tweets but it does not save anything to the file. Our function goes through Twitters API to extract the data and not a URL. We do not use the requests module, we use the tweepy function:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumerKey, consumerSecret)
auth.set_access_token(accessToken, accessTokenSecret)
api = tweepy.API(auth) 

Maybe you can give us an idea of how to implement it correctly?

2. Describing the data (Maybe this one is more directed at Snorre): We understand that the log file will log errors and save timestamps etc. How do you want us to analyze the data?

Kindest regards, Group 10

[snorreralund]

If you are using tweepy you have to create your own log. If you want to use the connector you need to create your own queries. e.g.:

# import authorization package
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1

# load credentials
import pickle
consumer_key, consumer_secret, oauth_token, oauth_token_secret = pickle.load(open('/path/to/twitter_credentials.pkl','rb'))
# initialize authorization mechanism
auth = OAuth1(consumer_key, consumer_secret, oauth_token, oauth_token_secret)
# search tweets example query
url ='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=foucault&geocode=55.676098,12.568337,5km' 
# usertimeline tweets example query
name = 'realdonaldtrump'
q = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=realdonaldtrump&count=200&tweet_mode=extended'
# Using the connector with authorization
call = {'url':q,'auth':auth} # define arguments to the requests.get method
response,call_id = connector.get({'url':q,'auth':auth},'twittertest_auth')
data = response.json()

2. I will create a little post about how you should analyze the Log later today.

[snorreralund]

The pip package is not updated yet, so until then you should use the following Connector: https://github.com/snorreralund/scraping_seminar/blob/master/logging_requests.py

[snorreralund]

see issue #41