After last week’s turbulences, many people on Twitter talk about moving to Mastodon. For me the biggest challenge to create an account on Mastodon was to find an instance. Unlike Twitter, Mastodon offers many places where you can create an account, or you can host your own server. Use Debirdify Manuel Eberl created the …
Since I concluded my experiments with Tweepy in April, a new and important Twitter endpoint finally arrived: Bookmarks. Let’s have a look how we can access our Twitter bookmarks with Tweepy. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code …
Tweepy is not only good for housekeeping, but we can also use it for more positive interactions on Twitter. Let’s see how we can like and retweet tweets. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post …
Not everyone on Twitter is interested in a friendly conversation. Some people are just there for mischief and harassment. Let’s look at how we can use Tweepy to block and mute accounts. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the …
The number of tweets written on Twitter every second is massive. With the streaming clients we can get a glimpse on what is going on in near real-time. Let’s find out what Tweepy offers and how the V1 and V2 endpoints differ. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find …
Searching Twitter from Tweepy is a lot less troublesome than working with lists. Let’s explore the search API of Twitter and the V2 client of Tweepy. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my …
Lists are a helpful Twitter feature that allows us to keep up with interesting accounts. Let’s look at how we can use Tweepy to work with those lists. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post …
Tweepy is very good at abstracting the Twitter API. But what can we do if Tweepy stops working from one day to another? This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository on …
With the user access tokens stored, we can now explore the Twitter API. A good starting point is to look at the accounts you follow and on who follows you. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for …
So far we acquired the user authentication token in the command line. This works at development time, but our users need a more friendly way to hand over their tokens. Let’s look what we need to do to use Tweepy in a Flask application and how we can get the user token from Twitter. This …