A little help running the initial script for scraping: scrape_user.py

[anoduck]

Barely a novice programming python, and I am a little lost on how exactly the script is intended to be run. I opened up pycharm and attempted to add the variable then execute the script with the python console:

usr = User(some_user)
scrape_user(usr)

As you probably surmised this did not work in the least. Then I added the variable user = "some_user", then attempted to execute the script and this did not work as well. Adding user = User("some_user") failed as well. So, I am lost as to how exactly this is supposed to be run. A little help would be greatly appreciated.

[umitkaanusta]

Assuming that the error is about doing the scraping properly, the problem here is probably about the Twint package (and/or Twitter's own "alarms"). If so, you can execute the functions in scrape_user step by step. If a step does not work, wait 1-2 mins and re-run that step again until the desired output comes.

Can you post the error message if it's something else than what I said above

[anoduck]

After running python3 scrape_user.py I recieve:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scrape_user.py", line 1, in <module>
    from tia.stalk import URL_ROOT
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tia.stalk'

[umitkaanusta]

You need to download TIA with the instructions given in README, seems like you're trying to use the script without downloading TIA.

[anoduck]

No. I cloned the repository and use it as CWD. The README barely elaborates on how to run the script, which is why I opened the issue.
Let me walk you through my process.

1. Clone the repository
   git clone https://github.com/umitkaanusta/TIA

2. Change directory into repository
   cd TIA

3. Install required packages from pip
   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. At this point I should be ready to run the script.

5. Change directory into tia/stalk
   cd tia/stalk

6. Open up scrape_user.py in text editor.
   micro scrape_user.py

7. Instructions in the bottom of the file are as follows:

       \# Create a user instance with the username, like uka = User("umitkaanusta")
       \# Then scrape_user(uka)
   
   

8. (This is where the confusion begins.) I Add the following to the top of the file below the import statements.
   user = User("some_username")
scrape_user(user)

9. Save and close out editor.

10. Execute the scrape_user.py script.
    python3 scrape_user.py

11. I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "scrape_user.py", line 1, in from tia.stalk import URL_ROOT ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tia.stalk'

conclusion

What am I doing wrong? Why is this not working?

[umitkaanusta]

Main issue: #4

[anoduck]

Thanks again!