Scraping Twitter Data Using Python, R or Node.js

Create your Twitter Developer Account in 3 easy steps and start scraping data using the language of your choice

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If you’re passionate about Natural Language Processing or you want to collect and build your own data that you can use for your personal projects or analysis, Twitter is one of the best social media platforms where you can get huge text data.

The first thing that you need to do before you can start collecting public tweets is to setup your Twitter Developer Account. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how you can set up your account and generate a Twitter API.

Setting up your Twitter Environment in 3 Steps

Step 1: Setting up your Twitter Developer Account

First you have to sign up for a twitter developer account here: https://developer.twitter.com/en

The signup process is pretty straightforward, it might take a few minutes to complete the process but you should be all set after that.

Step 2: Creating Projects & Apps within the Developer Portal