The Twitter API and Authentication

Intermediate Importing Data in Python

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Data Scientist at DataCamp

Herein, you’ll learn

How to stream data from the Twitter API
How to filter incoming tweets for keywords
About API Authentication and OAuth

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Herein, you’ll learn

How to stream data from the Twitter API
How to filter incoming tweets for keywords
About API Authentication and OAuth
How to use the Tweepy Python package

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Access the Twitter API

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Access the Twitter API

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Access the Twitter API

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Access the Twitter API

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Twitter has a number of APIs

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Twitter has a number of APIs

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Twitter has a number of APIs

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Twitter has a number of APIs

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Twitter has a number of APIs

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Tweets are returned as JSONs

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Tweets are returned as JSONs

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Using Tweepy: Authentication

tweets.py

import tweepy, json

access_token = "..."
access_token_secret = "..."
consumer_key = "..."
consumer_secret = "..."

Using Tweepy: stream tweets!!

tweets.py

# Create Streaming object
stream = tweepy.Stream(consumer_key, consumer_secret, 
                       access_token, access_token_secret)

# This line filters Twitter Streams to capture data by keywords:
stream.filter(track=['apples', 'oranges'])

Let's practice!

Intermediate Importing Data in Python