getting latest message of user with tweepy

Question

So I have this code ->

import tweepy

ckey = ''
csecret = ''
atoken = ''
asecret = ''



auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(ckey, csecret)
auth.set_access_token(atoken, asecret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

recent_post = api.user_timeline(screen_name = 'DropSentry', count = 1, include_rts = True)

print(recent_post)

which prints the recent post of a user. However is there a way to run this code 24/7? For example I want that my code prints again whenever the user posts something new.

Does this answer your question? [Using tweepy to stream users' timeline and filtered tweets](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22675561/using-tweepy-to-stream-users-timeline-and-filtered-tweets) — Prayson W. Daniel, May 02 '21 at 13:03

thomaslecouffe · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-02T11:50:39.833

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The parameter 'since_id' in the method user_timeline can help you to do this thing.

You need to get the id of the last status the user post and give it in the parameter 'since_id'

recent_id = 1388810249122062337 #hardcode the last recent post id from the user
while True:
  recent_post = api.user_timeline(screen_name = 'DropSentry', count = 1, since_id=recent_id, include_rts = True)
  if recent_post:
    print(recent_post)
    recent_id = recent_post[0].id
  time.sleep(10) # To avoid spamming the API, you can put the number of seconds you want

But this piece of code will lose message if user post multiple messages in the 10 seconds gap. So, you can also get all messages from the user in the meantime and print them all.

recent_id = 1388810249122062337 #hardcode the last recent post id from the user
while True:
  recent_posts = api.user_timeline(screen_name = 'DropSentry', since_id=recent_id, include_rts = True)
  if recent_posts:
    for recent_post in recent_posts:
      print(recent_post)
      recent_id = recent_post.id
  time.sleep(10) # To avoid spamming the API, you can put the number of seconds you want

edited May 02 '21 at 11:50

answered May 02 '21 at 10:40

thomaslecouffe

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thats kinda weird i have been trying to use that code and get this error: SyntaxError: leading zeros in decimal integer literals are not permitted; use an 0o prefix for octal integers – Haider May 02 '21 at 11:24
It's strange I test with recent_id = 1388810249122062337 and it works – thomaslecouffe May 02 '21 at 11:50
For the first snippet it's not recent_post.id but recent_post[0].id. I edit the answer – thomaslecouffe May 02 '21 at 11:54
i have only one problem if i excecute the code it will give me all informations but i need only the 'text' how do i do that? – Haider May 02 '21 at 12:00
In the first snippet, print(recent_post[0].text) In the second print(recent_post.text) – thomaslecouffe May 02 '21 at 12:11

getting latest message of user with tweepy

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