How can I generate a query for retreiving text of liked tweets of a list of users?

[camillaancona]

Hello, I would like to know if is it possible to use the following command:
twarc2 liked-tweets [OPTIONS] USER_ID [OUTFILE] with a list of users rather than a single user_id at a time.
If not, how can I make a simple python code to create a workaround?
I have the same issue with the following command: twarc2 liking-users [OPTIONS] TWEET_ID [OUTFILE] specifying a list of tweets ids instead of a single one

Thanks a lot

[igorbrigadir]

Unfortunately the command line doesn't have an already working command to do this in bulk, but you can script it in bash

For example, if you have an input.txt with 1 user per line like this (it should work with either usernames or user IDs):

user1
user2
user3

This should get likes of each of them:

while read line; do twarc2 liked-tweets "$line" "likes_of_$line.jsonl" && echo $line; done < input.txt

This will create likes_of_user1.jsonl, likes_of_user2.jsonl, likes_of_user3.jsonl.

Alternatively, using https://twarc-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/client2/#twarc.client2.Twarc2.liked_tweets is the function to call, but this way you'll have to manage your own way of writing output - the function is a generator that returns API response pages.

[camillaancona]

Thank you, the bash code for the following command twarc2 liking-users [OPTIONS] TWEET_ID [OUTFILE] is the same only changing the input file (tweets_ids instead of users_ids)?

[igorbrigadir]

yep, same way:

while read line; do twarc2 liking-users "$line" "users_who_liked_tweet_$line.jsonl" && echo $line; done < input.txt

if the input.txt is 1 tweet ID per line

[camillaancona]

Thanks a lot. I retrieved the list of tweets_ids usign the deyhadrate twarc2 command starting from my jsonl file d tweets (created from searches). Then I used the bash command line that you suggested as while read line; do twarc2 liking-users "$line" "users_who_liked_tweet_$line.jsonl" && echo $line; done < tweets-ids.txt
however it returns me an error saying that ] is not validary parameter value but the input text file contains only the tweets ids one per line. Can you help me?
tweet-ids.txt

[igorbrigadir]

] is not validary parameter

This is usually something wrong with where you're running the command - it should be inside a Bash terminal.