Install git for windows https://git-scm.com/download/win
Install Miniconda for Python 3.6, 64-bit https://conda.io/miniconda.html
Install Visual Studio Code
Open a terminal (command prompt) and run these commands:
cd c:\
mkdir dev
cd dev
git clone https://github.com/mblandfo/python_twitter_utils.git
Open Visual Studio Code, open directory c:\dev\python-twitter-utils
In the file picker on the left of Visual Studio Code, select get_users.py
It should ask you about installing the python extension. Click it and pick the top option for Python by Don Jayamanne
Go to File -> Preferences -> Settings and on the right side add this line:
"python.linting.enabled": false
If you want to change your theme go to File -> Preferences -> Color Theme
Restart Visual Studio Code
Go to View -> Integrated Terminal and run this:
pip install python-twitter
pip install pytz
In Visual Studio Code, open "get_users.py" and right click and select "Run python file in terminal" (or you can just type "python get_users.py" in the terminal) It should give you an error saying you need to put in passwords. Help on that is here:
Create a Twitter App so you can get auth tokens: https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
After that you'll need to look over the settings at the top of get_users.py, and create an input.csv with the screen_names you'd like to get tweets from.