from argparse import ArgumentParser from html import unescape from re import sub from psycopg2 import connect parser = ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('-d', '--database', help='database connection string') parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', help='output file', default='data') args = parser.parse_args() # Fetch messages from database since it's way faster than using the API conn = connect(args.database) cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute('SELECT text FROM statuses WHERE language=\'en\'') statuses = cur.fetchall() # Clean up statuses for i in range(len(statuses)): # Remove HTML stuff statuses[i] = unescape(sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', statuses[i][0])) # Remove URLs and special characters and convert to lowercase # Uncomment for generating data for LSTMs #statuses[i] = ' '.join([sub(r'[^a-z0-9]', '', word.lower()) for word in statuses[i].split() if word.find('://') == -1]) # Save to output file with open(args.output, 'w') as f: for status in statuses: print(status, file=f)