If you ever need to get data from Twitter, and do not want to deal with coding, there is a neat application that you can use: Hydrator, a desktop application that takes in tweet IDs and returns the corresponding data from Twitter as JSON. Hydrator handles the Twitter API rate limits for you, and allows you to pause and continue the downloads if desired. Users have the option to convert the data to a CSV after the downloads are complete.
There’s just one catch: you do have to have tweet IDs to feed into the application. If you’re lucky and looking for a dataset for or from a common source, you may be able to find a set of IDs online. Otherwise, however, the Twitter API will still be your best bet to query and retrieve a large number of IDs.
