Classify Type Of Tweet (tweet/retweet/mention) Based On Tweet Text In Python

Pulling from a couple of different examples, I've been able to create a simple Python script that parses the JSON output from the Twitter Streaming API, and prints out the screen_n

Solution 1:

I don't have any python interpreter here, but it should be something similar to this:

import re


defurl_match(tweet):
    match = re.match(r'RT\s@....+', tweet)
    if match:
        return"RT"else:
        match = re.match(r'@....+', tweet)
        if match:
           return"mention"elsereturn"tweet"

Note: this will work for this classification, but if you want to retrieve usernames i.e. @USERNAME you will have to tweak this a little more.