Using the Twitter API with tweepy

Prerequisites

You must have applied for the Twitter API and obtained the following keys and tokens:

• Consumer_key
• Consumer_secret
• Access_token
• Access_secret

Reference: Step-by-step guide from Twitter API registration (account application process) to approval - as of August 2019 - Qiita https://qiita.com/kngsym2018/items/2524d21455aac111cdee

Sample

Let’s try it out. tweepy is a wrapper that makes it easy to use the Twitter API, allowing basic Twitter operations with short code.

Importing tweepy and Connection Authentication

Set the obtained keys and tokens, create the Twitter object, and handle authentication.

import tweepy

Consumer_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Consumer_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Access_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Access_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# Create Twitter object
auth=tweepy.OAuthHandler(Consumer_key,Consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(Access_token,Access_secret)
api=tweepy.API(auth)

Display a Specific User’s Timeline

status=api.user_timeline(id='zatoima1')[0]
print(status.user.name)
print(status.text)

Result

zato
RT @motikiro2: パソコンの排気口を塞ぐツボツボとネコネコ https://t.co/fbfq7GDLbK

The status object stores the following information, which can be referenced to automate various operations.

For other stored information, please also refer to:

List of Information Stored in the tweepy Status Object | my opinion is my own https://zatoima.github.io/twitter-api-tweepy-status-list.html

Auto-Like, Auto-Retweet, and Auto-Follow for Specific Tweets

Next, let me show an example that might be useful for bot creation using this object. For example, the Python code below searches for 20 tweets containing the word “AWS.” User information and tweet information retrieved from matching tweets are stored in the “status” object. The code then performs “1. Like”, “2. Retweet”, and “3. Follow” on the tweets and users stored in the status object.

In this example, we operate on keywords found through search, but it appears that almost any Twitter-related operation is possible. This shows how Twitter bots and accounts that instantly like tweets for specific keywords automate this kind of thing.

q_list=["#AWS"]
count=20
for q in q_list:
    print("Now:QUERY-->>{}".format(q))
    search_results=api.search(q=q,count=count)
    for status in search_results:
        tweet_id=status.id
        user_id=status.user.name
        try:
            api.create_favorite(tweet_id)
            api.retweet(tweet_id)
            api.create_friendship(user_id)
        except:
            pass
    print("Done:QUERY-->>{}".format(q))

Note: There are rate limits for likes, retweets, and follows. There is a risk of account suspension. Please be careful.

Developer Agreement and Policy - Twitter Developer https://developer.twitter.com/ja/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy