extract Geo location of Tweet

Question

Is there any way we culd extract Geo location of tweet, even when user did not enable the location? I am looking to collect tweets from specific states for sentiment analysis of tweets. Please help

class StdOutListener(StreamListener): #class allow us to print tweets def on_data(self, data): full_tweet = json.loads(data) ##this makes sure that you won't get clipped tweets if 'extended_tweet' in full_tweet: tweet_text = full_tweet.get('full_text') else: tweet_text = full_tweet.get('text') tweet_time = full_tweet.get('created_at') tweet_lang = full_tweet.get('lang') if tweet_lang != None and tweet_lang == 'en' and tweet_text != None and 'RT @' not in tweet_text: ##this is only taking the text and the time stamp, which is making the DB very space effecient tweetObject = { "text": tweet_text, "time": tweet_time, } scPrimary.insert_one(tweetObject) return True

Answer 1

No, it is not possible unless the user has enabled the feature (it is off by default), more here

If the feature is enabled then when retrieving a tweet (with any of the available methods) you can get this information in the Status object (model returned by Tweepy API methods):

status.coordinates # ie [-49.319543, -16.679431]
status.place.full_name # ie The Netherlands
status.user.location