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Sonika Baniya
Sonika Baniya

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How to tweet via Python script?

#python #tutorial #help #beginners

What do you need to install?

  1. Python
  2. Tweepy : Tweepy is a python library for accessing Twitter API.
  3. Developer account in Twitter

Steps

  1. Create a test file name test.py in your working directory.

  2. Write the following here

import tweepy # Consumer keys and access tokens from twitter developer console CONSUMER_SECRET = '####' CONSUMER_KEY = '###' ACCESS_SECRET = '####' ACCESS_KEY = '###' # OAuth authentication connection from auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET) # Creation of the actual interface, using authentication tweet = tweepy.API(auth) # Write tweet here tweet.update_status("Hi from API" )
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3.Run the following file by running python test.py command in your working directory and bam, you are done in 8 lines of code.

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⚡ Nirazan Basnet ⚡ •

Great snippets. Thanks for sharing!