You might have seen some people using completely different source labels.
Well, today we will see how to change the Twitter source label
First, we need to have a Twitter developer account, if you don't have.
1) Just navigate to Twitter Developer website
2) Just fill out the form with details about ‘what you want to do with their API’. This process may take like 10 minutes and you will get a verification email instantly once you submitted the form.
After getting approval from Twitter. Now we can create an app
1) Open this link and click on "create app"
2) Give your app a name, this name will be shown on your tweets as a source label. And you can't name an app which is already present.
Click on Next
3) Click on App settings
4) Under User authentication settings, click on Setup
5) Enable OAuth 1.0a
6) Select Read and write under App permissions
7) You can enter either your Instagram or Twitter profile link
8) Now click on the option called Keys and Tokens. You can see your Twitter API keys and Access Tokens by clicking on view keys button and generate button respectively.
9) Now you have access to Twitter APIs, to create a Twitter app, you need to download Python.
10) Now, open the file location of where you have installed python and navigate to "Scripts" folder
C:\Users\"YourUsername"\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts
11) Now, Open Command Prompt, and type cd, give space and paste your python file location and click enter
cd C:\Users\"YourUsername"\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts
12) Now type the command and hit enter
pip install tweepy
13) Once installed, close the command prompt. Now in the python scripts folder, right-click and click on New > text document to create a new document.
14) Now open that document and paste this code inside
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("CONSUMER KEY HERE", "CONSUMER KEY SECRET HERE")
auth.set_access_token("ACCESS TOKEN HERE", "ACCESS TOKEN SECRET HERE")
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweet = input(" ")
api.update_status(status =(tweet))
print ("Done!")
If you want to tweet with a media file like photo or video, you can use the below code
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("CONSUMER KEY HERE", "CONSUMER KEY SECRET HERE")
auth.set_access_token("ACCESS TOKEN HERE", "ACCESS TOKEN SECRET HERE")
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweet = input("")
image="C:/Users/facadmin1/Downloads/introdev.PNG" #Enter image location
api.update_with_media(image, tweet)
print ("Done!")
To reply to tweet with your custom source label then copy the link of the tweet that you want to reply for twitter.com/aleti_sunil/status/135677656715.. and last "1356776567154876416" is the tweet id
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("CONSUMER KEY HERE", "CONSUMER KEY SECRET HERE")
auth.set_access_token("ACCESS TOKEN HERE", "ACCESS TOKEN SECRET HERE")
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweet = input("")
api.update_status(tweet, in_reply_to_status_id = tweetid)
print ("Done!")
Now replace the placeholders with your twitter APIs. Remember that there are 4 APIs to change – API Key, API Secret Key, Access Token, and Access Token Secret.
Once done, it should look like this
15) Now save the file and name it anything, but change the save as type to “All files” and add “.py” at the end of the file name to save it as a python file and click save.
16) Now open that .py file you just made. That’s it, you can type anything in this command line and click enter.
It will be tweeted as a new tweet.
That's it. Hola you finally did it
If you still have any queries, check out the video
Hope it's useful
A ❤️ would be Awesome 😊
Oldest comments (91)
That was great Sunil. Thanks for letting us know.
Thanks ☺️
i did all the steps (pretty sure correctly) and when i open the file it auto closes, what am i doing wrong?
In such case, Open cmd and enter "python -i filename"
Now it will work
can you show me a pic/video on how to do this exactly? im a bit confused [btw i named the file anything.py (its not anything.py.py its shows as anything.py)]
sure, please check the image below
now it shows media.discordapp.net/attachments/7...
I think you haven't installed tweepy?
If not, Enter "pip install tweepy" in cmd
please what do i do, idk what to do streamable.com/55jqod
The link is not working. Can you share once again
youtube.com/watch?v=su5eg-hYzRE&fe... that shall work
got it to work
i had the same exact problem, how did you get it to work?
try downloading pip, make sure its for python
i have pip installed, but i still have the problem where it auto closes :(
umm how do you exactly change the source label? in which part?
I've checked tweepy's documentation for API.update_status but for the source parameter it says:
"source – Source of the update. Only supported by Identi.ca. Twitter ignores this parameter."
I tried customizing the source and yes it didn't do anything.
tweepy actually takes the name of the app which you created.
In this article, I created an app with name "A Tesla Lover" and I'm able to change the source label, which you can see from the last tweet in this article.
Ah I see.. I think the problem is that I didn't enable my 3rd party authentication, so it just tweeted without any source label. Thank you!
i enabled the 3rd party authentication and regenerate all the tokens and keys, and still nothing came out on the source label; only my tweet. any idea?
hav u changed to read & write ?
yes i've changed the permission to read & write before i changed the 3rd party authentication. i've found the same issue on the link and i guess it'll take some time until the effect takes place. your code is handier, thank you!
gist.github.com/KonradIT/0bd7243eb...
yes that worked out for me but now i want to change the name again and changing the app name in devloper website doesn't make any changes will it take some time to do all the changes please can you tell me ?
why does mine look like this? :(( i tried redoing the steps but it wont changee
There might be some issue with ur code or process. Plz recheck once because many of them tried and its working for them
Help please, what do i do :( It says it doesn't recognize the "pip install tweepy"
hey i succesfully completed all the steps and it worked fine for me untill i realised that my twitter label has a speel mistake how do i change my twitter label again ?
You can edit the app name or create a new app it will work
make a new app, do the same steps with the new keys and tokens.
great tutorial but I have a question, what if i have to reply ny specific tweet using the app, is there ay to do that?
Thanks, we can reply but we need to modify the code for that
Do you have the code for that? That would be very helpful
instead of using
api.update_status(status =(tweet))
use api.update_status("your reply", in_reply_to_status_id = tweetid)
ok but what if i want to reoky to a specific tweet?
Copy the link of the tweet
Ex: twitter.com/AndroidPolice/status/1... and last "1308397020034420736" is the tweet id
Thank You so much🙏
sorry im kinda retard, can you give me an example? because it didn't work on me (i'm new to this)
If you want to upload image or video in a tweet, use this
where do i put the image path
In 5th line, inside input enter the image location
figured it out that im supposed to put to // on the path or else it will have an error
unicode error ‘unicodeescape’ codec can’t decode bytes etc
@nonvieri I'm getting the same error too. @sunilaleti what's the solution here?
hi is this possible on a Mac?? because I'm finding it really hard, I'd really appreciate the help.
make a windows 10 VM
can i do this using an android phone?
no
yes, use termux or another terminal emulator (and use nano as your text editor)
hello, i already had a dev account so i used that to make my app and it works, but i was wondering how i could use this same app to tweet on a different account. thanks!
where do i put where my label should be
i think you cant? im just a beginner
on the twitter dev dashboard (the app name is your label)
on the twitter developers dashboard, the name of the app is your label
I did all the steps and I did what it said in the comment below me and it still doesn't work. Need Help.
whats the error message?
hello, what if I want to create a twitter thread? it seems like using the customized source label is only exclusive to 1 tweet???
You can
How do I reply to other tweets or replies?
I mentioned the process in comments section.
Kindly check it
import tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("Secret", "secret")
auth.set_access_token("secret", "Secret")
api = tweepy.API(auth)
reply = input(" ")
tweetId = input(" ")
api.update_status(reply, in_reply_to_status_id = tweetId, auto_populate_reply_metadata=True)
print ("Done!")
This is my solution
sorry i'm kinda retard,can you make an example?,(i don't know what's my mistake but it didn't work)
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