This content shows how to get Twitter geo-located data using QGIS (1. Installation of QGIS and Plugin 2. Twitter API application, and 3. Example of getting data from Twitter API).

1. Center for Research and Application for Satellite Remote Sensing
Yamaguchi University
How to Get Twitter Data Using
QGIS and Python

2. Contents
• This manual is to help how to get Twitter geo-located data using
QGIS.
• 1. Installation of QGIS and Plugin
• 2. Twitter API application
• 3. Example of getting data from Twitter API
API
Plug in
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3. https://medium.com/@compatt84/qweetgis-qgis-3-plugin-for-twitter-93005f2e5ec8 3
Qweetgis — QGIS 3 plugin for Twitter

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1. Installation of QGIS and Plugin

5. •https://www.qgis.org/
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Access to QGIS web site

6. Download installer depending on your computer environment (32bit of 64bit)
Execute install file.
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Launch OSGeo4W Shell

8. • To set Python3 as the global interpreter
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Execute the command “py3_env”

9. • Execute “python3”
You can exit by Ctrl-z or quit(). 9
Check version of python

10. Install “tweepy” and “xlsxwriter”
•Excute commands showed below
> “pip install tweepy”
> “pip install xlsxwriter” * If you can not execute pip,
Execute 1) “python –m pip uninstall”
2) “easy_install pip”
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11. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qweetgis/
Zip file is downloaded.
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Download Python plugin file

12. ② click “Manage and Install
Plugins
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Launch QGIS and Plugin manager

13. ① Click “Install from
ZIP”
②
Click
Plugin manager
③ Select download
zip
④
Click
⑤
Click
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Select downloaded zip file

14. • Install -> Check “Qweetgis”
Plugin manager
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Restart QGIS and plugin manager

15. 2. Twitter API application
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16. https://developer.twitter.com
/
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Access twitter website and login

17. • You have to apply twitter to get API key.
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Click “Apply”

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Click Apply for a dev. account

19. ①
② 19
Select primary reason

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Confirm your twitter account

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Enter how will you use twitter API in English (1/2)

22. ①
② Change to
No
③ Change to
No
④ Change to
No
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Enter how will you use twitter API in English (2/2)

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Confirm your entered words

24. Please check e-mail for confirm
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Application is finished

25. • It takes a few days.
• You may send additional information on demand from Twitter
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Waiting…

26. After 1 week… Application is approved
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Back to developer site and Select “Create an app”

28. ”
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Click “Create an app”

29. Enter to forms (1/2)
②
①
③ Enter your twitter account
page
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30. ④
⑤
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Enter to forms (2/2)

31. • CONSUMER API KEY
• CONSUMER SECRET KEY
• ACCESS TOKEN
• ACCESS TOKEN SECRET
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Get Keys and tokens

32. 3. Launch Qweetgis
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33. https://medium.com/@compatt84/qweetgis-qgis-3-plugin-for-twitter-93005f2e5ec8
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Visit and Read Qweetgis website

34. Launch Qweetgis and enter API keys
①
②
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35. ① Keyword Search
②Search Accuracy
Tweet Location or User Place
③
① Geo Search type
You can get twitter streaming data.
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Main dialog of Qweetgis

36. Extra: Get Twitter Data from
Python
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37. • Python library for accessing the Twitter API
• See document
• http://docs.tweepy.org/en/latest/
• Next page shows sample script of get tweet data at
specific area.
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Tweepy

38. Sample script
See -> http://docs.tweepy.org/en/latest/api.html#help-methods
sample.py
”q” : search query.
“geocode” : Returns tweets by users located
within a given radius of the given
latitude/longitude.
Enter keys
Execute command > “python sample.py” 38

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Result

40. Twitter removes support for precise
geotagging because no one uses it
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