Twitter API

Twitter Provides API for developers to use these API to create applications, send message in twitter, post content, post tweets etc. Twitter lets gives a monthly cap of 5,00,000 tweets to pull using the API.

Libraries

1. Tweet library (python) Docs
2. twitter4j jar (java) Docs

Steps

1. Download tweet library (pip install tweet)
2. Create a Twitter Developer account Create Account
3. Go to projects and Apps in your developer account Projects and Apps
4. Create an App and obtain consumer key, consumer secret, access token, access token secret
5. Find the keys and access token in your twitter apps tab under keys and tokens

Python

	import tweepy
	consumer_key = "YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_KEY"
	consumer_secret = "YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_SECRET"
	access_token = "YOUR_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN"
	access_token_secret = "YOUR_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) #create a OAuthHandler
	auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) #initialize tokens and keys
	api = tweepy.API(auth)
	recipient_name = api.get_user("TWITTER_ACCOUNT_NAME") #the account name you have to send a message to
	recipient_id = recipient_name.id_str #get ID of that user
	text = "This is a Direct Message." #message to be sent
	direct_message = api.send_direct_message(recipient_id, text)

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Java

	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.util.List;
	import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
	import twitter4j.Twitter;
	import twitter4j.TwitterException;
	import twitter4j.TwitterFactory;
	import twitter4j.auth.AccessToken;
	import twitter4j.*;
	public class message {
	static String consumerKeyStr = "YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_KEY";
	static String consumerSecretStr = "YOUR_APP_CONSUMER_SECRET";
	static String accessTokenStr = "YOUR_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN"
	static String accessTokenSecretStr = "YOUR_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET";
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable, IOException {
	try {
	Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
	twitter.setOAuthConsumer(consumerKeyStr, consumerSecretStr);
	AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken(accessTokenStr,accessTokenSecretStr);
	twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);
	String text = "sup";
	twitter.sendDirectMessage("sreeharishar_", text);
	}
	catch (TwitterException te) {
	te.printStackTrace();
	}
	}
	}

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