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Tweepy is an easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API. It can be used with Python (3.7+).

Tweepy is an open source Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

The source code and documentation are available on GitHub. The library also has a community Discord server.

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When using tweepy cursor, what is the best practice for catching over capacity errors?

I'm gathering information on a large number of users using Python's Tweepy library. I've the API initialized as follows api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True) where auth contains my tokens. This code…
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How to stream twitter mentions with tweepy?

I am currently using the following code, this gets the tweet and then passes it to a function that processes. This is not in realtime though. auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token,…
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return actual tweets in tweepy?

I was writing a twitter program using tweepy. When I run this code, it prints the Python ... values for them, like Which is not good. How do I get the actual tweet? import tweepy, tweepy.api key =…
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Tweepy Truncated Status

I was mining user timeline data with tweepy and, have faced some difficulties in understanding the following: Is the 'retweeted' and 'truncated' attribute referring to the same thing (i.e., status text beyond 140 characters)? If not, what is the…
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Logical Operators in Tweepy Filter

I'm hoping to track tweets that contain a certain set of words, but not others. For example, if my filter is: "taco" AND ("chicken" OR "beef"). It should return these tweets: -I am eating a chicken taco. -I am eating a beef taco. It should not…
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Scrape tweets by tweet location and user location

I am trying to use tweepy to download tweets using the tweet location and not by user location. Currently, I can download tweets with the user location but am not able to get the tweet location even ifgeo_enabled returns True. For example, suppose…
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How to use Tweepy to retweet with a comment

So i am stuck trying to figure out how to retweet a tweet with a comment, this was added to twitter recently. this is when you click retweet and add a comment to the retweet and retweet it. basically this is what i am talking about : i was looking…
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Unable to import tweepy module

I am new to installing new python modules. I installed tweepy using pip install tweepy. The installation was successful and 2 folders tweepy & tweepy-3.3.0.dist-info are created in the Lib/site-packages, hence I assumed all should be fine. However,…
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Streaming Twitter direct messages

I am using the following code to stream direct messages received by my Twitter account -: from tweepy import Stream from tweepy import OAuthHandler from tweepy import API from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener # These values are…
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tweepy documentation

I just began working on a little twitter-app using tweepy. is there any kind of useful (and complete) documentation for tweepy? I googled like hell but didn't find anything.
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The best way to get a list of followers in Python with Tweepy

Is there a better way to get a list of followers screen names with Tweepy than this: for follower in api.followers_ids('twitter'): print api.get_user(follower).screen_name
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Getting a users entire twitter timeline with tweepy

I am trying to retrieve a list that contains the entire contents of my personal twitter statuses with python and tweepy. I have successfully authenticated via OAuth but cannot seem to recieve more than about 800 status updates from twitter. My…
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Can't import StreamListener

I'm trying to create a data stream in Python using the Twitter API, but I'm unable to import the StreamListener correctly. Here's my code: import tweepy from tweepy import Stream from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener class…
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Twitter Streaming API - urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection broken: IncompleteRead

Running a python script using tweepy which streams (using the twitter streaming API) in a random sample of english tweets, for a minute and then alternates to searching (using the twitter searching API) for a minute and then returns. Issue I've…
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Get all friends of a given user on twitter with tweepy

Using tweepy I am able to return all of my friends using a cursor. Is it possible to specify another user and get all of their friends? user = api.get_user('myTwitter') print "Retreiving friends for", user.screen_name for friend in…
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