[PYTHON] Try using the Twitter API

Application registration

1. Go to here and select "Create New App"
2. Enter the required information and select "Create your Twitter application"

Get Access Token

1. Select the "Keys and Access Tokens" tab on the screen after the previous operation
2. Select "Create my access token" (at the bottom of the screen)
3. Information is output near the same bottom.

A little test with Python

environment

python related packages. Please refer to other sites for installation methods.

• python 2.7.9

• pip 1.3.1

• In python 2.7.6, the following error occurred when communicating with the REST API.

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: 
          InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. 
          This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. 
          For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning

After reading the description on the above site, I recommend upgrading to 2.7.9. So I upgraded to 2.7.9.

Install OAuth authentication library

$ pip install requests requests_oauthlib

Test code

Source code

twitter_api_test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import json

from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session

oauth_info = {
    'consumer_key': os.environ.get('TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_KEY'),
    'consumer_secret': os.environ.get('TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_SECRET'),
    'access_token': os.environ.get('TWITTER_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'),
    'access_token_secret': os.environ.get('TWITTER_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')
}

oauth = OAuth1Session(
    oauth_info['consumer_key'],
    oauth_info['consumer_secret'],
    oauth_info['access_token'],
    oauth_info['access_token_secret']
)

url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json'
params = {
    'q': u'#python',
    'lang': 'ja',
    'result_type': 'recent',
    'count': '15'
}

res = oauth.get(url, params=params)

if res.status_code != 200:
    print '[ERROR] Unexpected code: %d' % res.status_code
    exit(1)

tweets = json.loads(res.text)

for tweet in tweets['statuses']:
    print '-----'
    print tweet['text']

Run

$ export TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_KEY=xxx	#For the following 4 lines, use the one obtained by "Get Access Token".
$ export TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_SECRET=yyy
$ export TWITTER_API_ACCESS_TOKEN=zzz
$ export TWITTER_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=aaa

$ python twitter_api_test.py

result

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