Testing get_tweets

app.py

@@ -3,6 +3,26 @@ import pandas as pd
 import twint 
 import nest_asyncio
 
+# Function to make this easy for ourselves:
+def get_tweets(username, limit=500, save_name=None):
+  nest_asyncio.apply() # Helps avoid RuntimeError: This event loop is already running
+
+  # Setup config
+  c = twint.Config() # Create a config object to store our settings
+  c.Limit = limit # Max number of tweets to fetch (increments of 20)
+  c.Username = username # User of interest
+  c.Pandas = True # Store tweets in a dataframe
+  c.Hide_output = True # Avoid printing out tweets
+
+  # Run the seearch
+  twint.run.Search(c)
+
+  # Get the results and optionally save to a file as well
+  df = twint.storage.panda.Tweets_df
+  if save_name != None:
+    df.to_csv(save_name)
+  return df
+
 st.title('Test')
 
 with st.form("my_form"):
@@ -13,6 +33,8 @@ with st.form("my_form"):
   # Every form must have a submit button.
   submitted = st.form_submit_button("Submit")
   if submitted:
-    st.write("user", user, "n_tweets", n_tweets)
+    st.write("Fetching user", user, "n_tweets", n_tweets)
+    tweets = get_tweets(user, limit=n_tweets)
+    st.write(st.dataframe(tweets.head()))
 
 st.write("Outside the form")