The tweepy package provides some useful tweeting capabilities. :bird: :bird:
Reference:
Setup
Create a Twitter Account. Then while logged in to Twitter, visit the and click "Create New App" to create a new Twitter Application. You might have to first sign up for a Twitter developer account, and click the link in a confirmation email.
After creating a new application, click on the "Keys and Access Tokens" tab, and note the application's "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Secret". Scroll down and generate a new Access Token and note its "Access Token" and "Access Token Secret" values. Store these four values as in a in your project's root directory, like:
# the ".env" file...
TWITTER_API_KEY="______________"
TWITTER_API_SECRET="______________"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="______________"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="______________"
Installation
Install tweepy, if necessary:
pip install tweepy
Usage
List your recent tweets:
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import tweepy
load_dotenv()
consumer_key = os.environ.get("TWITTER_API_KEY")
consumer_secret = os.environ.get("TWITTER_API_SECRET")
access_token = os.environ.get("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN")
access_token_secret = os.environ.get("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET")
# AUTHENTICATE
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
# INITIALIZE API CLIENT
client = tweepy.API(auth)
# ISSUE REQUESTS
user = client.me() # get information about the currently authenticated user
tweets = client.user_timeline() # get a list of tweets posted by the currently authenticated user
# PARSE RESPONSES
print("---------------------------------------------------------------")
print(f"RECENT TWEETS BY @{user.screen_name} ({user.followers_count} FOLLOWERS / {user.friends_count} FOLLOWING):")
print("---------------------------------------------------------------")
for tweet in tweets:
created_on = tweet.created_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
print(" + ", tweet.id_str, created_on, tweet.text)