Getting started with Twython

In this chapter, we will use Twython 3, which is a Python wrapper of the Twitter API 1.1. We can download the latest version of twython from pypi Python website, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twython.

Then, we need to unzip and open the twython folder. Finally we install the twython module using the following command:

>>> python3 setup.py install

Or, we can also install Twython through easy_install using the following command.

>>> easy_install twython

We can find complete reference documentation of Twython at https://twython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html.

Tip

You can find a complete list of Twitter libraries for several programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, and so on at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries.

Simple search

In this example, we will perform a search of the word python and we will print the complete list of statuses in order to understand the format of the retrieved tweets.

First, we need to import the Twython...