Python + Twitter API = Love
Creating a Twitter App
- [Optional] Create a new Twitter account to post to (you could post to your own if you would like).
- Login to your twitter account
- Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ and click “Create New App”
- Fill in the Data Twitter asks for (Name, Description, URL don’t matter for our purposes) 3a. Website must include the protocol (https://) 3b. Leave the callback url blank, we won’t need it for the Markov project
- Agree to the Developer Agreement and Create the App
- Click on the “Permissions” Tab and change the permissions to allow for Read & Write Access, save the form
- Click on "Keys and Access Tokens”, Click on “Regenerate Consumer Key and Secret”, Confirm the action
- Scroll to Access Tokens and click “Generate Access Token and Token Secret”
You now will have all of the Tokens / Consumer Keys you need. You can now create a secrets.sh file in your project folder and put the needed export statements in there. Remember, you’ll need to run source secrets.sh whenever you open a new terminal window.
export VAR_NAME='SOME VALUE'File Reference
api.py covers How to load ENV vars
tweet_machine.py expands on that and shows how to post tweets via python.
.gitignore is a handy dandy git feature that lets you check in a list of files that git should ignore and not ask you to commit.
requirements.txt is a helper file that I used to install the twitter-python library. You won't need it for the Markov project