Rakshit Agrawal, 2016

This repository provides some basic functions to communicate with Twitter using Public API provided by Twitter.

This code uses Python Requests library which is not provided by default Python installation. It also used Request-OAuthlib for OAuth functions.

The library provides following features at this stage:

• Get settings of the user account
• Get the user's timeline
• Post a tweet (plain, with location, and with media)
• Delete a specific tweet

The function provided by this repository require authentication tokens from Twitter. In order to obtain the tokens, follow the steps:

• Create a twitter account you plan to use. Any tweet sent through this API will reflect on this user's timeline.

• Create an App through this link.

• Obtain the authentication parameters for your App by following steps provided by Twitter.

• You need to obtain Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, and Access Token Secret

• An easy way to store and use these files while accessing the functions is to create a file credentials.py store the settings in it as follows:

  CONSUMER_KEY = "Consumer Key from Twitter"
  CONSUMER_SECRET = "Consumer Secret from Twitter"
  
  ACCESS_TOKEN = "Access Token from Twitter"
  ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "Access token secret from Twitter"
  
  twitter_access = dict(consumer_key=CONSUMER_KEY,
                        consumer_secret=CONSUMER_SECRET,
                        access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN,
                        access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
                   
  twitter_username = "Username for Twitter account"

• Once you have the value, you can start using the library

  from credentials import twitter_access, twitter_username
  from twitter import Twitter   
   
  t = Twitter(**twitter_access)
  
  # To post a tweet
  t.post_tweet(text="Hello World")

• Once you have the credentials ready, you can also run example.py to post some sample tweets