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+import re
+import sys
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+from usertweets import UserTweets
+import nltk
+
+nltk.download('punkt')
+from nltk import word_tokenize
+from nltk.corpus import stopwords
+from gensim import corpora, similarities, models
+
+stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
+
+
+def clean_tweet(tweet):
+    # removes #, @ and URL
+    tweet = re.sub("([^0-9A-Za-z \t])|(\w+:\/\/\S+)", "", tweet)
+    tweet = re.sub("RT[\s]+", "", tweet)
+    tweet = re.sub("[0-9]+", "", tweet)
+    tweet = ' '.join([w for w in tweet.split() if len(w) > 3])
+    return tweet
+
+
+def tokenize_tweet(tweet):
+    return word_tokenize(tweet)
+
+
+def filter_tweet(tokens):
+    return [w for w in tokens if not w.lower() in stop_words]
+
+
+def preprocess_tweets(handle, tweet_count=5):
+    user_tweets = UserTweets(handle)
+    superset_tokens = []
+    for tw in user_tweets[:tweet_count]:
+        tweeted_text = clean_tweet(tw.text)
+        tokens_text = tokenize_tweet(tweeted_text)
+        filtered_text = filter_tweet(tokens_text)
+
+        # remove words that appear only once
+        frequency = defaultdict(int)
+        for token in filtered_text:
+            frequency[token] += 1
+
+        superset_tokens.append([token for token in filtered_text if frequency[token] > 1])
+    return superset_tokens
+
+
+def similar_tweeters(user1, user2):
+    number_of_tweets = 5000
+    user1_tweets_relevant_tokens = preprocess_tweets(user1, number_of_tweets)
+    user2_tweets_relevant_tokens = preprocess_tweets(user2, number_of_tweets)
+    # print(user1_out)
+    dictionary = corpora.Dictionary(user1_tweets_relevant_tokens)
+    corpus = [dictionary.doc2bow(text) for text in user1_tweets_relevant_tokens]
+    lsi = models.LsiModel(corpus, id2word=dictionary, num_topics=2)
+    vec_lsi = [lsi[dictionary.doc2bow(text)] for text in user2_tweets_relevant_tokens]
+    index = similarities.MatrixSimilarity(lsi[corpus])
+
+    sims = [index[a] for a in vec_lsi]
+    most_similar = [max(a) for a in sims]
+    mean_similarity = sum(most_similar) / len(most_similar)
+
+    print('------- Checking Twitter Handle Similarity --------')
+    print(f'Similarity between {user1} and {user2}: {round(mean_similarity, 4) * 100}%')
+    # user2_tweets = UserTweets(user2)
+    # for tw in user2_tweets[:5]:
+    #     print(tw.text)
+    # print()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+        print('Usage: {} <user1> <user2>'.format(sys.argv[0]))
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    user1, user2 = sys.argv[1:3]
+    similar_tweeters(user1, user2)
diff --git a/05/avnig/usertweets.py b/05/avnig/usertweets.py
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+from collections import namedtuple
+import csv
+import os
+
+import tweepy
+
+from config import CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET
+from config import ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET
+
+DEST_DIR = 'data'
+EXT = 'csv'
+NUM_TWEETS = 100
+
+Tweet = namedtuple('Tweet', 'id_str created_at text')
+
+class UserTweets(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, handle, max_id=None):
+        """Get handle and optional max_id.
+        Use tweepy.OAuthHandler, set_access_token and tweepy.API
+        to create api interface.
+        Use _get_tweets() helper to get a list of tweets.
+        Save the tweets as data/<handle>.csv"""
+        # ...
+        auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
+        auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)
+        self.api = tweepy.API(auth)
+        self.handle = handle
+        self.max_id = max_id
+        self.output_file = os.path.join(f"{DEST_DIR}/handle.{EXT}")
+        self._tweets = list(self._get_tweets())
+        self._save_tweets()
+
+    def _get_tweets(self):
+        """Hint: use the user_timeline() method on the api you defined in init.
+        See tweepy API reference: http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/api.html
+        Use a list comprehension / generator to filter out fields
+        id_str created_at text (optionally use namedtuple)"""
+        # file_tweets = tweets.TWEETS
+        data_tweets = self.api.user_timeline(screen_name=self.handle, max_id=self.max_id, count=NUM_TWEETS)
+        for tweet in data_tweets:
+            yield Tweet(tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text)
+
+    def _save_tweets(self):
+        """Use the csv module (csv.writer) to write out the tweets.
+        If you use a namedtuple get the column names with Tweet._fields.
+        Otherwise define them as: id_str created_at text
+        You can use writerow for the header, writerows for the rows"""
+        if not os.path.exists(DEST_DIR):
+            os.mkdir(DEST_DIR)
+        with open(self.output_file, 'w') as f:
+            w = csv.writer(f)
+            w.writerow(Tweet._fields)
+            w.writerows(tweet for tweet in self._tweets)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        """See http://pybit.es/python-data-model.html"""
+        return len(self._tweets)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, pos):
+        """See http://pybit.es/python-data-model.html"""
+        return self._tweets[pos]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    for handle in ('pybites', 'juliansequeira', 'bbelderbos'):
+        print('--- {} ---'.format(handle))
+        user = UserTweets(handle)
+        for tw in user[:5]:
+            print(tw)
+        print()