How To Create Twitter Bot using Python And Tweepy

The

goal of this tutorial is to get you write your own Twitter bot using Python and tweepy. We will get tweets based on Hashtag and Geo Graphical Area. First of all, We need to wrapper for python script to access Twitter account.

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Note Keys and Tokens we will use it in script. Next, we need to install tweepy. Tweepy is Python library for accessing the Twitter API. Tweepy will be used to access the twitter API with Python.

Install Tweepy From Command Line

1	pip install tweepy

Now, Its time to write python script. Create a new file with .py extension. Eg. twitterApp.py

Import tweepy and sleep library

Import tweepy to access twitter api and sleep to put time delay in script.

1 2	import tweepy from time import sleep

Define Consumer key, Secret and Tokens

consumerKey = '<Consumer Key>'

consumerSecret = '<Consumer Secret>'

accessToken = '<Access Token>'

accessTokenSecret = '<Access Token Secret>'

Initialise Tweepy

Create object auth from tweepy library and set access token. method set_access_token() will be used to set access token.

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumerKey, consumerSecret)

auth.set_access_token(accessToken, accessTokenSecret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

Getting Tweets

Listing out tweets between 20th November 2016 to 03rd December, tweeted from silicon velly, having hashtag #php.

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='#php', since='2016-11-20', until='2016-12-03', geocode='37.3875,122.0575,5000km', lang='en').items(10000):

try:

# Print User Name who tweeted

print('\nTweet by: @' + tweet.user.screen_name)

sleep(5)

# Retweet the tweet

tweet.retweet()

print('Retweeted the tweet')

# Favorite the tweet

tweet.favorite()

print('Favorited the tweet')

# Follow the user who tweeted

if not tweet.user.following:

tweet.user.follow()

print('Followed the user')

except tweepy.TweepError as e:

print(e.reason)

except StopIteration:

break

geocode='37.3875,122.0575,5000km' : Returns tweets based on latitude and longitude nearby 5000 kilo meters.
q='#php' : Hashtag whose tweets we want to use.
tweet.user.screen_name : Returns User Name of owner
tweet.favorite() : This function used to retweet the tweet
tweet.favorite() : Used to favorite the tweet
tweet.user.follow() : To follow the user
lang='en' : Returns tweets having language English only
items(10000) : Returns 10000 maximum tweets

Full Source Code

import tweepy
from time import sleep

consumerKey        = '<Consumer Key>'
consumerSecret     = '<Consumer Secret>'
accessToken        = '<Access Token>'
accessTokenSecret = '<Access Token Secret>'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumerKey, consumerSecret)
auth.set_access_token(accessToken, accessTokenSecret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='#php', since='2016-11-20', until='2016-12-03', geocode='37.3875,122.0575,5000km', lang='en').items(10000):
        try:
                # Print User Name who tweeted
                print('\nTweet by: @' + tweet.user.screen_name)
                sleep(5)

# Retweet the tweet
                tweet.retweet()
                print('Retweeted the tweet')

# Favorite the tweet
                tweet.favorite()
                print('Favorited the tweet')

# Follow the user who tweeted
                if not tweet.user.following:
                        tweet.user.follow()
                        print('Followed the user')

except tweepy.TweepError as e:
                print(e.reason)

except StopIteration:
                break

import tweepy

from time import sleep