Week of 02 September 2018

04-September-2018

Last week I created my GitHub account, and I learned about repositories,branches,merging,commits, and pull requests. Branches help create versions of one project, which helps large teams put their work together.

Also, I looked up on how people scrape Twitter, since Twitter has its Search API for developers sifting through tweets. However, one must pay premiums to have access to Tweets older than seven days. I figured that I would be using the HTML document to parse through the site, but I did not know that Twitter had offered other ways of sifting through their tweets. I know that I need a specific URL that I would be using for querying, and Twitter only displays a certain amount of Tweets per page (limited by the scroll). I want to figure out how to have full access to all the Tweets on one singular page and which URL I would be using. So far, I have looked through a test Twitter page document to check what indicates a tweet in the HTML, but it was only a cursory glance. I still need to look at other URLs as well.