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By embedding Twitter content in your website or app, you are agreeing to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy. Go to Twidere settings Network Advance Default API settings Then change Auth type to xAuth, with the Twitter for Android consumer key and secret. After that, you need to re-login by go to Account Add account (tap the + icon) Choose Twitter + User settings then fill your credential (ID/Pass) and login again.
Introduction
Having access to the Twitter API can help you manage your social media accounts, and allow you to mine social media for data. This can be useful for brand promotion if you represent a business or an organization, and it can be enjoyable and entertaining for individual users and hobbyist programmers.
In this article, we will outline the steps necessary for you to create a Twitter application.
We’ll then build a script in Python that uses the Tweepy library to make use of the Twitter API.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place:
- A Twitter account with a valid phone number, which you can add via the Mobile section of your Settings when you’re logged in
- A Python programming environment set up; this can either be on your local machine or on a server
Step 1 — Create Your Twitter Application
Let’s go through the process of creating a Twitter application and retrieving your API access keys and tokens. These tokens are what will allow you to authenticate any applications you develop that work with Twitter. As mentioned in the prerequisites, you’ll need a valid phone number in order to create applications using Twitter.
Open up your browser and visit https://apps.twitter.com/ then log in using your Twitter account credentials. Once logged in, click the button labeled Create New App.
You will now be redirected to the application creation page.
On this page, you’ll fill out the required fields.
Note: The name that you provide for your app must be unique to your particular app. You cannot use the name as shown here since it already exists.
- Name: DigitalSeaBot-example-app
- Description: My example application.
- Website: https://my.example.placeholder
Read the Twitter Developer Agreement. If you agree to continue at this point, click the checkbox next to the line that reads, Yes, I have read and agree to the Twitter Developer Agreement.
Once you click the Create your Twitter application button at the bottom of the page, you’ll receive a confirmation page.
After successfully creating your application, you will be redirected to your application’s Details page, which provides you with some general information about your app.
Step 2 — Modify Your Application’s Permission Level and Generate Your Access Tokens
From the Details page, let’s navigate over to the Permissions page to ensure that we have the appropriate access level to generate our application keys.
By default, your Twitter app should have Read and Write access. If this is not the case, modify your app to ensure that you have Read and Write access. This will allow your application to post on your behalf.
After updating your application’s permissions to allow posting, click the tab labeled Keys and Access Tokens. This will take you to a page that lists your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, and also will allow you to generate your Access Token and Access Token Secret. These are necessary to authenticate our client application with Twitter.
Click the button labeled Create my access token under the Access Token heading to generate your Access Token and Access Token Secret.
Now you will now have an Access Token and an Access Token Secret.
On the page you’re redirected to, you’ll also see the application’s Access Level, your username as the Owner, and your Owner ID.
Step 3 — Install Tweepy
You can use a variety of programming languages and associated packages to make use of the Twitter API. To test that our Twitter app set-up was successful, we’ll be using Python and the Tweepy package to run a script that outputs a string to our Twitter account.
Tweepy is an open-source and easy-to-use library that allows your Python programming projects to access the Twitter API.
In this step, we’ll use pip to install Tweepy.
Make sure you’re in your Python 3 programming environment and create a new directory or change directories as desired to keep your programming files organized. For our example, we’ll use the directory twitter.
Before installing Tweepy, let’s first ensure that pip is up-to-date:
Once any updates are completed, we can go on to install Tweepy with pip:
Generate Consumer Key For Twitter Account
With Tweepy installed, we can go on to creating our Python Twitter program.
Step 4 — Create a Python Application that Interacts with Twitter
After successfully creating your Twitter application and generating the necessary keys and tokens, you are now ready to create your client application for posting to your timeline.
Create a new Python program file called helloworld.py with your favorite text editor. We’ll be using nano as an example:
Now, let’s construct our Python script. First, we’ll need to import the Tweepy library with an import statement:
Next, we’ll be making variables for each key, secret, and token that we generated. Replace the items in single quotes with your unique strings from the Twitter apps website (and keep the single quotes).
We’ll next be creating an OAuthHandler instance into which we’ll pass our consumer token and secret. OAuth — which works over HTTP and authorizes devices, APIs, servers, and applications — is a standard that provides secure and delegated access. We’ll also be setting the access tokens and integrating with the API.
Finally, at the bottom of our program, let’s have Tweepy update our status. We’ll create a variable called tweet and pass this variable to the api.update_status() method. In the method we’ll pass status=tweet.
We can now save the file and run the script:
Once you run the program, check your Twitter account.
The status is posted to your account’s timeline and you have successfully configured your Twitter application and authenticated using Tweepy!
Conclusion
By following this tutorial, you were able to set up a Twitter application tied to your Twitter username. Once setting up the application and collecting our Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, and generating our Access Token and Access Token Secret, we authenticated a Python 3 application to use it through the open-source Tweepy library.
If you’re not a Python developer, there are many other programming languages and libraries that you can use to make use of the Twitter API. The Twitter Developers website maintains a list of libraries that support the current Twitter API.
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Introduction
Having access to the Twitter API using Python can be extremely useful for promoting your brand (if you represent a business or organization), as well as incredibly enjoyable and entertaining (if you are an individual user or hobbyist programmer).
In this article, we will outline the steps necessary for you to create a Twitter application and access your account using Python.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have completed the following prerequisites:
- A Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet
- A sudo non-root user, which you can set up by following steps 1-4 in this tutorial.
- A Twitter account with a valid phone number
You will also require Python 2.7, which comes preinstalled on Ubuntu 14.04. To ensure you have the correct version (2.7.x), you can type the following command at your terminal:
This article will use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as the Linux server distribution, but the steps should be identical on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 14.10.
Step 1 — Install pip and Tweepy
In this step, we will install pip and Tweepy.
The Python library Tweepy provides easy access to the Twitter API. The simplest means of acquiring Tweepy is using pip, a Python package management system.
First, we will install pip.
This will set up python-pip on your system and allow you to install numerous other Python libraries using the pip command.
Next, we will install Tweepy using pip.
Note: Using sudo to install a Python library with pip will install it system-wide and make it available to all users.
Step 2 — Create Your Twitter Application
We will now explain the process of creating a Twitter application and retrieving your API access keys and tokens. These tokens are what will allow you to authenticate your Python client application with Twitter. As mentioned in the prerequisites, you will require a valid phone number in order to create applications using Twitter.
Open up your browser and visit https://apps.twitter.com/ then log in using your Twitter account credentials. Once logged in, click the button labeled Create New App.
You will now be redirected to the application creation page. Fill out the required form information and accept the Developer Agreement at the bottom of the page, then click the button labeled Create your Twitter application.
On this page, you’ll fill out the following fields.
- Name: my-example-app
- Description: My example application.
- Website: https://my.example.placeholder
You will also have to click the checkbox that says Yes, I agree underneath the Developer Agreement.
Step 3 — Modify Your Application’s Permission Level and Generate Your Access Tokens
After successfully creating your application, you will be redirected to your application’s settings page. Before you create your application keys, you will need to first modify the access level permissions in order to allow your application to post on your behalf.
Click on the link labeled modify app permissions. You will then be able to choose which permissions to allow. Select Read and Write to allow your application to post on your account’s timeline. If you want to allow the API access to direct messages, select Read, Write and Access direct messages instead.
After updating your application’s permissions to allow posting, click the tab labeled Keys and Access Tokens. This will take you to a page that lists your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, and also will allow you to generate your Access Token and Access Token Secret. These keys and secrets are necessary to authenticate our client application with Twitter.
Click the button labeled Create my access token under the Access Token heading to generate your Access Token and Access Token Secret.
Now you will now have an Access Token and an Access Token Secret. You’ll also see the Access Level you chose before, your username as the Owner, and your Owner ID.
Step 4 — Create a Python application to authenticate with Twitter
After successfully creating your Twitter application and generating the necessary keys and tokens, you are now ready to create your client application for posting to your timeline. In this step, we provide you a simple “Hello World!” Python script to test your application.
Create a new file called helloworld.py.
Paste the following script into the editor. Replace the keys and secrets with your unique credentials from the Twitter apps website. You can also replace the “Testing!” status with whatever you’d like the test tweet to say.
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Save the file, then run the script.
Generate Consumer Key For Twitter Accounts
Check your Twitter account. If the status posts to your account’s timeline, then you have successfully configured your Twitter application and authenticated using Tweepy!