added TODOs and twitter scraping by many users

twitter-scraper/TwitterScraper.py

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ class TwitterScraper(object):
     output: dict
     """
     def __init__(self, from_date="2022-07-01", to_date=str(date.today()), num_tweets=20):
+        # TODO: add a check to make sure that the dates are in the correct format.
+        #  TODO: add a check to make sure that the number of tweets is a positive number.
+        #  TODO: add a check to make sure that the number of tweets
+        #   is not greater than the number of tweets in the date range.
         self.from_date = from_date
         self.to_date = to_date
         self.num_tweets = num_tweets
@@ -22,6 +26,19 @@ class TwitterScraper(object):
         # user_names.
         return self.__get_tweets__from_twint__()
 
+    def scrape_by_several_users(self, _users: list):
+        """
+        This method uses twint to extract tweets based on username. It takes a list of users as input.
+
+        :param _users: list of users
+        :return: dataframe
+        """
+        # TODO: test this method
+        self.conf.Search = "from:@" + _users[0]
+        for user in _users[1:]:
+            self.conf.Search += " OR from:@" + user
+        return self.__get_tweets__from_twint__()
+
     def scrape_by_string(self, _string: str):
         """This method uses twint to extract tweets based on string.
         all extracted tweets have the specified word in _string parameter in it.
@@ -35,6 +52,7 @@ class TwitterScraper(object):
         self.conf.Search = _string
         return self.__get_tweets__from_twint__()
 
+    # TODO: make method static
     def get_only_tweets(self, tweet_and_replies_info):
         tweet_and_replies = tweet_and_replies_info["tweet"]
         """