NBC Russian Twitter Trolls Download

README.md

NBC Russian Twitter Trolls Download

Description

This Github Gist contains a makefile for downloading the full set of Russian Twitter Trolls data published by NBC in their article 'Twitter deleted 200,000 Russian troll tweets. Read them here.'.

The makefile will download the following .csv files into a created directory named russian-twitter-trolls.

russian-twitter-trolls/ # Created by makefile
├── tweets.csv          # 200,000 tweets (50mb) of propoganda tweets
└── users.csv           # Twitter profiles of Russian trolls

Instructions

To use this makefile successfully you will need make, curl, and mv installed on your system. Most *NIX machines will come with these preinstalled.

1. Download or copy the makefile from this gist to where you want the data folder to reside.
2. Open up a terminal, navigate to the directory where you downloaded your makefile.
3. Run make
4. Done!

makefile

# Makefile
# Downloads NBC's Russian Twitter trolls data
# The data is sourced from this article:
# https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweets-n844731

all: russian-twitter-trolls

tweets:
	curl -o tweets.csv "http://nodeassets.nbcnews.com/russian-twitter-trolls/tweets.csv"

users:
	curl -o users.csv "http://nodeassets.nbcnews.com/russian-twitter-trolls/users.csv"

russian-twitter-trolls: tweets users
	mkdir russian-twitter-trolls
	mv tweets.csv russian-twitter-trolls
	mv users.csv russian-twitter-trolls