Python Twitter Tools
====================
+[](https://travis-ci.org/sixohsix/twitter)
+
The Minimalist Twitter API for Python is a Python API for Twitter,
everyone's favorite Web 2.0 Facebook-style status updater for people
on the go.
The Twitter API is documented at:
- http://dev.twitter.com/doc
+**[http://dev.twitter.com/doc](http://dev.twitter.com/doc)**
Examples::
- t = Twitter(
- auth=OAuth(token, token_key, con_secret, con_secret_key)))
+```python
+from twitter import *
- # Get the public timeline
- t.statuses.public_timeline()
+# see "Authentication" section below for tokens and keys
+t = Twitter(
+ auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET,
+ CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
+ )
- # Get a particular friend's timeline
- t.statuses.friends_timeline(id="billybob")
+# Get your "home" timeline
+t.statuses.home_timeline()
- # Also supported (but totally weird)
- t.statuses.friends_timeline.billybob()
+# Get a particular friend's timeline
+t.statuses.user_timeline(screen_name="billybob")
- # Update your status
- t.statuses.update(
- status="Using @sixohsix's sweet Python Twitter Tools.")
+# to pass in GET/POST parameters, such as `count`
+t.statuses.home_timeline(count=5)
- # Send a direct message
- t.direct_messages.new(
- user="billybob",
- text="I think yer swell!")
+# to pass in the GET/POST parameter `id` you need to use `_id`
+t.statuses.oembed(_id=1234567890)
- # Get the members of tamtar's list "Things That Are Rad"
- t._("tamtar")._("things-that-are-rad").members()
+# Update your status
+t.statuses.update(
+ status="Using @sixohsix's sweet Python Twitter Tools.")
- # Note how the magic `_` method can be used to insert data
- # into the middle of a call. You can also use replacement:
- t.user.list.members(user="tamtar", list="things-that-are-rad")
+# Send a direct message
+t.direct_messages.new(
+ user="billybob",
+ text="I think yer swell!")
+# Get the members of tamtar's list "Things That Are Rad"
+t._("tamtar")._("things-that-are-rad").members()
-Searching Twitter::
+# Note how the magic `_` method can be used to insert data
+# into the middle of a call. You can also use replacement:
+t.user.list.members(user="tamtar", list="things-that-are-rad")
- twitter_search = Twitter(domain="search.twitter.com")
+# An *optional* `_timeout` parameter can also be used for API
+# calls which take much more time than normal or Twitter stops
+# responding for some reason
+t.users.lookup(screen_name=','.join(A_LIST_OF_100_SCREEN_NAMES), _timeout=1)
- # Find the latest search trends
- twitter_search.trends()
+# Overriding Method: GET/POST
+# you should not need to use this method as this library properly
+# detects whether GET or POST should be used, Nevertheless
+# to force a particular method, use `_method`
+t.statuses.oembed(_id=1234567890, _method='GET')
+```
- # Search for the latest News on #gaza
- twitter_search.search(q="#gaza")
+Searching Twitter::
+``` python
+# Search for the latest tweets about #pycon
+t.search.tweets(q="#pycon")
+```
Using the data returned
-----------------------
Twitter API calls return decoded JSON. This is converted into
a bunch of Python lists, dicts, ints, and strings. For example::
- x = twitter.statuses.public_timeline()
+```python
+x = twitter.statuses.home_timeline()
- # The first 'tweet' in the timeline
- x[0]
-
- # The screen name of the user who wrote the first 'tweet'
- x[0]['user']['screen_name']
+# The first 'tweet' in the timeline
+x[0]
+# The screen name of the user who wrote the first 'tweet'
+x[0]['user']['screen_name']
+```
Getting raw XML data
--------------------
If you prefer to get your Twitter data in XML format, pass
format="xml" to the Twitter object when you instantiate it::
- twitter = Twitter(format="xml")
+```python
+twitter = Twitter(format="xml")
+```
The output will not be parsed in any way. It will be a raw string
of XML.
iterator that yields objects decoded from the stream. For
example::
- twitter_stream = TwitterStream(auth=UserPassAuth('joe', 'joespassword'))
- iterator = twitter_stream.statuses.sample()
+```python
+twitter_stream = TwitterStream(auth=UserPassAuth('joe', 'joespassword'))
+iterator = twitter_stream.statuses.sample()
- for tweet in iterator:
- ...do something with this tweet...
+for tweet in iterator:
+ # ...do something with this tweet...
+```
The iterator will yield tweets forever and ever (until the stream
breaks at which point it raises a TwitterHTTPError.)
is blocking (True). When set to False, the iterator will
occasionally yield None when there is no available message.
+Per default the ``TwitterStream`` object uses
+[public streams](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/public).
+If you want to use one of the other
+[streaming APIs](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis), specify the URL
+manually:
+
+- [Public streams](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/public): stream.twitter.com
+- [User streams](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/user): userstream.twitter.com
+- [Site streams](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/streams/site): sitestream.twitter.com
+
+Note that you require the proper
+[permissions](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/application-permission-model) to
+access these streams. E.g. for direct messages your
+[application](https://dev.twitter.com/apps) needs the "Read, Write & Direct
+Messages" permission.
+
+The following example demonstrates how to retrieve all new direct messages
+from the user stream:
+
+```python
+auth = OAuth(
+ consumer_key='[your consumer key]',
+ consumer_secret='[your consumer secret]',
+ token='[your token]',
+ token_secret='[your token secret]'
+)
+twitter_userstream = TwitterStream(auth=auth, domain='userstream.twitter.com')
+for msg in twitter_userstream.user():
+ if 'direct_message' in msg:
+ print msg['direct_message']['text']
+```
+
Twitter Response Objects
------------------------
-Response from a twitter request. Behaves like a list or a string
+Response from a Twitter request. Behaves like a list or a string
(depending on requested format) but it has a few other interesting
attributes.
Visit the Twitter developer page and create a new application:
- https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new
+**[https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new](https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)**
This will get you a CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET.
When users run your application they have to authenticate your app
-with their Twitter account. A few HTTP calls to twitter are required
+with their Twitter account. A few HTTP calls to Twitter are required
to do this. Please see the twitter.oauth_dance module to see how this
is done. If you are making a command-line app, you can use the
oauth_dance() function directly.
-Performing the "oauth dance" gets you an ouath token and oauth secret
+Performing the "oauth dance" gets you an oauth token and oauth secret
that authenticate the user with Twitter. You should save these for
later so that the user doesn't have to do the oauth dance again.
Finally, you can use the OAuth authenticator to connect to Twitter. In
code it all goes like this::
- MY_TWITTER_CREDS = os.path.expanduser('~/.my_app_credentials')
- if not os.path.exists(MY_TWITTER_CREDS):
- oauth_dance("My App Name", CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET,
- MY_TWITTER_CREDS)
+```python
+from twitter import *
- oauth_token, oauth_secret = read_token_file(MY_TWITTER_CREDS)
+MY_TWITTER_CREDS = os.path.expanduser('~/.my_app_credentials')
+if not os.path.exists(MY_TWITTER_CREDS):
+ oauth_dance("My App Name", CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET,
+ MY_TWITTER_CREDS)
- twitter = Twitter(auth=OAuth(
- oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
+oauth_token, oauth_secret = read_token_file(MY_TWITTER_CREDS)
- # Now work with Twitter
- twitter.statuses.update('Hello, world!')
+twitter = Twitter(auth=OAuth(
+ oauth_token, oauth_secret, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
+# Now work with Twitter
+twitter.statuses.update(status='Hello, world!')
+```
License
projects / z_archive / twitter.git / blobdiff