How to tweet via Python script?

What do you need to install?

1. Python
2. Tweepy : Tweepy is a python library for accessing Twitter API.
3. Developer account in Twitter

Steps

1. Create a test file name test.py in your working directory.

2. Write the following here
   

import tweepy

# Consumer keys and access tokens from twitter developer console
CONSUMER_SECRET = '####'
CONSUMER_KEY = '###'
ACCESS_SECRET = '####'
ACCESS_KEY = '###'

# OAuth authentication connection from 
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)

# Creation of the actual interface, using authentication
tweet = tweepy.API(auth)

# Write tweet here
tweet.update_status("Hi from API" )

3.Run the following file by running python test.py command in your working directory and bam, you are done in 8 lines of code.

Comments

[⚡ Nirazan Basnet ⚡]

Great snippets. Thanks for sharing!