twitter tweets api code example

Example 1: how to get tweets from twitter api in python

import os
import tweepy as tw
import pandas as pd

consumer_key= 'yourkeyhere'
consumer_secret= 'yourkeyhere'
access_token= 'yourkeyhere'
access_token_secret= 'yourkeyhere'
auth = tw.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tw.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
# Post a tweet from Python
api.update_status("Look, I'm tweeting from #Python in my #earthanalytics class! @EarthLabCU")
# Your tweet has been posted!
# Define the search term and the date_since date as variables
search_words = "#wildfires"
date_since = "2018-11-16"
# Collect tweets
tweets = tw.Cursor(api.search,
              q=search_words,
              lang="en",
              since=date_since).items(5)
# Collect tweets
tweets = tw.Cursor(api.search,
              q=search_words,
              lang="en",
              since=date_since).items(5)

# Iterate and print tweets
for tweet in tweets:
    print(tweet.text)
# Collect tweets
tweets = tw.Cursor(api.search,
                       q=search_words,
                       lang="en",
                       since=date_since).items(5)

# Collect a list of tweets
[tweet.text for tweet in tweets]

Example 2: how will you use the twitter api or twitter data answer

We are integrating our post composer tool with Twitter to publish curated content from our website to our Twitter user profile. Our App will only use Tweet functionality.