PreTwITA is an open source Preprocessor for Tweets in the ITAlian language written in Python. The purpose of such library is to provide the user with language-specific tools for text cleaning (i.e. the process of preparing raw text for Natural Language Processing).

• correction of most common italian abbreviations (e.g. xk replaced with perché)
• remove urls
• remove emojis
• remove emoticons
• remove mentions
• remove hashtags
• remove twitter reserved words (i.e. 'rt' and 'fav')
• remove stopwords
  • an option to define additional stopwords
• remove punctuation
• remove numbers
  • an option to avoid removing dates in yyyy format
• remove multiple spaces
• tokenization

You can install PreTwITA via pip:
$python -m pip install pretwita

Otherwise, use git if you want to be sure to get the latest updates:
$pip install git+https://github.com/andreafailla/pretwita.git

For usage and tips, please refer to the demo.ipynb file