I wanted to know if this was possible- I want to use Python to retweet every tweet a person sends out. If yes then how can I implement this?
Unfortunately, python-twitter does not yet support the Twitter Retweet REST call.
You'll have to make that call directly yourself (using direct calls to api._FetchURL) or apply the patch in issue 130 to add support.
You're better off with using tweepy; read the API documentation, there is a handy retweet(id) method for retweeting.
Quick and dirty example:
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.BasicAuthHandler("username", "password")
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for status in api.user_timeline('someuser'):
api.retweet(status.id)
This will retweet the last 20 statuses from someuser. You'll want to do some more coding to prevent it from retweeting those same messages again next time you run the script though.
Edit: Twitter no longer accepts BasicAuth authentication, and you'll have to use the OAuth authentication exchange to get a authorisation token. Changing the example above to use OAuth would detract from the retweet API point I was trying to make, see the Tweepy OAuth tutorial for an extensive tutorial.
It's possible to retweet anything the people you follow tweet.You can also retweet all of the public tweets.
Use this link : https://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy
you will know how to do it in a very simple way .
Here's the OAuth "Quick and dirty" method, please keep in mind that you will need to have Tweepy installed for this to work.
import tweepy
api_key = 'your_key'
api_secret = 'your_secret_key'
access_token = 'your_token'
access_secret = 'your_secret_token'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(api_key, api_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for status in api.user_timeline('someuser'):
api.retweet(status.id)
The newest version of python-twitter allows you to retweet with the command
api.PostRetweet(tweet_id)
where api is a logged-in api and tweet_id is the id of the tweet you want to retweet.
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Here is the context of what I want to do:
Automate following certain profiles on Twitter with an account that is different from my Twitter developer account. For that I read that I need 3-legged OAuth.
Here is my code:
import tweepy
consumer_key = "XXX"
consumer_secret = "XXX"
oauth1_user_handler = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(
consumer_key, consumer_secret,
callback="callback url"
)
print(oauth1_user_handler.get_authorization_url(signin_with_twitter=True))
Following the link printed I am able to authenticate my app using the Twitter account and then get something like this:
https://my_callback_url?oauth_token=XXX&oauth_verifier=XXXX
Following Tweepy's documentation, I should be able to put this oauth_verifier there:
access_token, access_token_secret = oauth1_user_handler.get_access_token(
"Verifier (oauth_verifier) here"
)
However, it is not correct, because every time I run my code I need to authenticate again and get a new oauth_verifier token.
On the Twitter developer portal everything is setup with this OAuth 1 permission and putting a callback URL and website URL was mandatory. I don't know what else to do.
That's where I am stuck.
I am following Tweepy's documentation here
You should be able to reuse the access token and secret, not the verifier.
I have tried to authenticate Twitter API several times in different ways and I keep getting an authentication error. I have tried requesting the latest elevated version as well but I cannot get it to work.
This is my code:
import tweepy
# Variables that contains the credentials to access
Twitter API
ACCESS_TOKEN =
ACCESS_SECRET =
CONSUMER_KEY =
CONSUMER_SECRET =
# Setup access to API
def connect_to_twitter_OAuth():
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
return api
# Create API object
api = connect_to_twitter_OAuth()
# tweets from my stream
public_tweets = api.home_timeline()
for tweet in public_tweets:
print(tweet.text)
This is the result:
TweepError: [{'message': 'You currently have Essential access which includes access to Twitter API v2 endpoints only. If you need access to this endpoint, you’ll need to apply for Elevated access via the Developer Portal. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/about-twitter-api#v2-access-leve', 'code': 453}]
I have tried the following tutorials but I cannot get the authentication to work. The tutorials did not mention elevated access and I'm not sure if there is a way to do this without:
https://gist.github.com/alexdeloy/fdb36ad251f70855d5d6
https://www.pythoncentral.io/introduction-to-tweepy-twitter-for-python/
https://towardsdatascience.com/my-first-twitter-app-1115a327349e
https://towardsdatascience.com/tweepy-for-beginners-24baf21f2c25
I have also looked at other stack overflow questions and answers and nothing seems to work.
I just want to get tweets from a specific user.
I am very new to using the tweepy api and have managed to get the followers_ids for a particular unauthenticated twitter user. I would now like to know how to get all the follower_ids for the twitter user as the first call only gives me 5000 ids and the user has a much larger set of followers. I have gone through the tweepy documentation but am still quite unclear about how to actually perform pagination using tweepy cursor. I would really appreciate a simple explanation to how to perform pagination and some help with my current code to perform the aforementioned task of obtaining all followers_ids of a twitter user.
import tweepy
user = tweepy.api.get_user('someuser')
cursors = tweepy.Cursor(user.followers_ids, id='screen_name')
for cursor in cursors.items():
print cursor.screen_name
one error that I am getting while using this is the following:
tweepy.error.TweepError: This method does not perform pagination
any help would be greatly appreciated.
I think you need need to have an authenticated tweepy.API instance first. I got the same error when I tried
user = api.get_user('username')
c = tweepy.Cursor(user.follower_ids)
However, this works for me:
import tweepy
## first set up authenticated API instance
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for block in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers_ids, 'username').items():
## do something with the block of 5000 follower ids
Hope that helps!
I have looked at all the Python Twitter API wrappers that I could find on Bitbucket, Github and PyPi, but have been unable to find one which allows you to connect to Twitter if you already have the authentication token.
I am aware that I can generate the authentication token using an OAuth token, OAuth token secret, Twitter Token and Twitter Secret; but I would like to skip that processing + not prompt users who already have accounts.
The tweepy library seems popular; but lacks documentation...
Would someone be able to show me a tweet postage which uses Tweepy (or any other Python Twitter library) that uses only the authentication token?
EDIT: I ended up getting to work right with Twython.
You have to store the access token and secret returned by the provider after authentication and use them in the subsequent requests to read or write. I have been using rauth (https://github.com/litl/rauth) and highly recommend it.
EDIT
Assuming you have already have a valid access token and a secret you can create a service object and read or write data using the twitter API (skipping the authentication steps). I have included the necessary steps from the rauth documentation below:
twitter = OAuth1Service(
name='twitter',
consumer_key='YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY',
consumer_secret='YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET',
request_token_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token',
access_token_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token',
authorize_url='https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize',
header_auth=True)
params = {'include_rts': 1, # Include retweets
'count': 10} # 10 tweets
response = twitter.get('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json',
params=params,
access_token=access_token,
access_token_secret=access_token_secret,
header_auth=True)
I'm attempting to connect to twitter using python, and I'm finding it really frustrating.
Everything I read suggests that I need a consumer key, a consumer secret, an access key and an access secret - for example: Using python OAUTH2 to access OAUTH protected resources
I can get the consumer key and the consumer secret from the twitter settings page for the little test app I created, but what about the other two? After a bit of googling it seems everyone thinks it's so obvious where you get this info from that it's not worth putting up, so I might be having a really dumb moment but could someone please spell it out for idiots like me please?
Edit:
OK to get these details open your app settings in Twitter and click the "My Access Token" link.
I suppose when looking for an Access Token, if you were to click on a link titled "My Access Token" might help. I'd love to attribute my stupidity to the wine, but really I don't know...
Almost all oauth examples on blogs seem to be examples of the authorisation phase of oauth and none focus on how to actually make requests once you have these, as once you understand how it works this part is quite obvious. Getting that initial understanding is quite difficult unfortunately.
If you're just trying access your twitter account from a script or app for yourself you can get the access token (called key in the python oauth library) and secret from dev.twitter.com at the bottom of the settings page for your app under the heading Your access token.
import oauth2 as oauth
import json
CONSUMER_KEY = "your app's consumer key"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "your app's consumer secret"
ACCESS_KEY = "your access token"
ACCESS_SECRET = "your access token secret"
consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=CONSUMER_KEY, secret=CONSUMER_SECRET)
access_token = oauth.Token(key=ACCESS_KEY, secret=ACCESS_SECRET)
client = oauth.Client(consumer, access_token)
timeline_endpoint = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json"
response, data = client.request(timeline_endpoint)
tweets = json.loads(data)
for tweet in tweets:
print tweet['text']
This example is using the python lib python-oauth2, which is an unfortunately named OAuth library not an OAuth2 library.
If you want to actually let other people authorise their account to be used by your app then you need to implement the redirect dance where you ask twitter for a request token/secret pair and then redirect the user to the twitter authorize page with this request token, they sign in and authorize the token and get redirected back to your application, you then exchange the request token for an access token and secret pair which you can store and use to make requests like above.
The Twitter Three-legged OAuth Example in the Readme at http://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2 seems to cover what needs to be done
Personally I use tweepy, it provides a nice python wrapper to Twitter's API