This script predicts the age and gender using their recent tweets. The prediction model used is from the lexica project developed by the World Well-Being Project.

Clone this repo and install the required python module. The script was developed using python 3.7.

git clone https://www.github.com/zhuchcn/twitter-lexica.git
pip install requirements.txt

A valid Twitter API key is required in order to retrieve user's tweets from twitter. The API keys must be put into the .env file. Replace the XXX with your own twitter api keys.

CONSUMER_KEY="XXX"
CONSUMER_SECRETE="XXX"
ACCESS_KEY="XXX"
ACCESS_SECRETE="XXX"

To predict a single user:

python predict_twitter.py -s @realDonaldTrump

To predict a list of user, use a txt file with each user name in a row.

python predict_twitter.py -i users.txt -o predict.txt

To save all tweets used, use a directory

python predict_twitter.py -i users.txt -o predict.txt -d user_twitters

To save the output log

python predict_twitter.py -i test.txt -o predict.txt -d user_twitters > log.txt

To get help

python predict_twitter.py --help