@umitkaanusta I cloned the repository and use it as CWD. The README barely elaborates on how to run the script, which is why I opened the issue. Let me walk you through my process.

1. Clone the repository
   git clone https://github.com/umitkaanusta/TIA

2. Change directory into repository
   cd TIA

3. Install required packages from pip
   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. At this point I should be ready to run the script.

5. Change directory into tia/stalk
   cd tia/stalk

6. Open up scrape_user.py in text editor.
   micro scrape_user.py

7. Instructions in the bottom of the file are as follows:

       \# Create a user instance with the username, like uka = User("umitkaanusta")
       \# Then scrape_user(uka)
   
   

8. (This is where the confusion begins.) I Add the following to the top of the file below the import statements.
   user = User("some_username")
scrape_user(user)

9. Save and close out editor.

10. Execute the scrape_user.py script.
    python3 scrape_user.py

11. I receive the following error:

conclusion

What am I doing wrong? Why is this not working?

Was this written in Windows by any chance?

Originally posted by @anoduck in #3 (comment)

Hey folks, it's been a while and the dependency twint (used to scrape Twitter) does not work anymore, and the official Twitter API is quite expensive. So, TIA won't work anymore.

But if you get ahold of some twitter data, you can use the models/methods here as a first step (the gender model is quite basic but still decent). The webpage on flask could also be helpful if you need some boilerplate code to visualize your results.

It was my first hit project on GH, surely learned a lot, and thank you for your support!

All the best,
Umit

Create a requirements.txt file for other developers to be able to run locally.
And, optionally, add dependencies section to README.md

Barely a novice programming python, and I am a little lost on how exactly the script is intended to be run. I opened up pycharm and attempted to add the variable then execute the script with the python console:

usr = User(some_user)
scrape_user(usr)

As you probably surmised this did not work in the least. Then I added the variable user = "some_user", then attempted to execute the script and this did not work as well. Adding user = User("some_user") failed as well. So, I am lost as to how exactly this is supposed to be run. A little help would be greatly appreciated.