fixed retweet check

get_metadata.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from time import sleep
 
 # CHANGE THIS TO THE USER YOU WANT
-user = 'SheriffClarke'
+user = 'realdonaldtrump'
 
 with open('api_keys.json') as f:
  keys = json.load(f)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 results = []
 
 def is_retweet(entry):
- return entry['user']['screen_name'].lower() != user.lower()
+ return 'retweeted_status' in entry.keys()
 
 def get_source(entry):
  if '<' in entry["source"]:

scrape.py

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 
 
 # edit these three variables
-user = 'SheriffClarke'
-start = datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 20) # year, month, day
-end = datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 23) # year, month, day
+user = 'realdonaldtrump'
+start = datetime.datetime(2010, 1, 1) # year, month, day
+end = datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 7) # year, month, day
 
 # only edit these if you're having problems
 delay = 1 # time to wait on each page load before reading the page
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def increment_day(date, i):
  found_tweets = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(tweet_selector)
  increment += 10
 
- print('{} tweets found'.format(len(found_tweets)))
+ print('{} tweets found, {} total'.format(len(found_tweets), len(ids)))
 
  for tweet in found_tweets:
  try: