I want to download tweets via the tweet downloader. I have tried both the export type “json” and “csv”. Both types are weird, however, in the sense that when I download them I get the document type “document” and thus the results are one big text passage and not sorted at all. I got the hint of using the following query but it doesn’t work (how should I seperate each variable?):
twarc2 search --archive --start-time “2021-10-30” --end-time “2021-11-13” “(from:greenpeace)” results.jsonl
this is a command line command, that download raw data from the API - to work with this kind of data, it’s better to process it somehow, you are unlikely to be able to get anything from reading it manually.
This might be a good place to start:
There are some good links to tutorials in that post.
Turning the data into a CSV could work to help view things manually, but remember not to use Excel, as it destroys the Tweet and user IDs (if excel must be used, the CSV has to be imported manually via the File → Import menu, and each column has to be set to TEXT, not opened directly with excel.) Use google sheets instead - that usually works.
