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Twarc Tutorials and Other Resources

Documentation here is largely auto generated from the code, which may not always be the most user friendly. Others have written great tutorials and other resources relating to using twarc, or working with the data generated by twarc. If you'd like to suggest additional resources that are relevant, please feel to open a pull request or open an issue.

An Introductory Video from the Australian Digital Observatory

A six minute video by the Australian Digital Observatory that shows some of the functionality of twarc2 search, as well as how to use Twitter's Query Builder in conjunction with twarc.

Carpentries Lesson

https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/twitter-with-twarc/index.html

Includes a step by step guide to collecting Twitter data using twarc2. It includes information on Twitter's JSON format, and how to manage collected data.

UVA Library's Scholars' Lab Twarc Tutorial

https://scholarslab.github.io/learn-twarc/

A beginner guide that also goes through command line and Python setup. Uses twarc for v1.1 API examples, not twarc2.

Guide from TwitterDev

https://github.com/twitterdev/getting-started-with-the-twitter-api-v2-for-academic-research

Twitter have released a 101 guide on using the Academic Access endpoints. It uses twarc2 as a library as opposed to command line, and gives code examples in R too.

Twitter Data Collection & Analysis

https://melaniewalsh.github.io/Intro-Cultural-Analytics/04-Data-Collection/12-Twitter-Data.html

Lesson from Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python

Getting Data from Twitter: A twarc tutorial

https://github.com/alblaine/twarc-tutorial

Uses twarc for v1.1 endpoints and has step by step examples for using some of the /utils scripts.

UCSB Library Twarc Tutorials

https://ucsb-collaboratory.github.io/twitter/

Uses both twarc and twarc2

Introduction to full archive searching using twarc v2

https://github.com/jeffcsauer/twarc-v2-tutorials/blob/master/twarc_fas.md

An example of using twarc2 search, but be sure to install twarc using pip install twarc not the link to the v2 branch zip.