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Simple Pyton code for creating a Twitter bot using their API.
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| import requests | |
| import json | |
| from requests.auth import AuthBase | |
| from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1 | |
| from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session | |
| # This is very simple code to start a simple Twitter bot. | |
| # At the moment, this is only for posting tweets to your | |
| # page. Twitter offers additional actions (Liking, Replying, | |
| # Retweeting, etc) on their (confusing) developer website. | |
| # Note: Twitter permits bots on their site, but you MUST | |
| # be clear on your Twitter profile that it is a bot. | |
| # Your Twitter credentials... | |
| # (These are NOT your password and username. You can | |
| # get these 4 credentials from the Twitter developer | |
| # website.) | |
| twt_key = 'YourTwitterKey123' | |
| twt_secret = 'YourTwitterSecret123' | |
| twt_token = 'YourAccessToken123' | |
| twt_token_secret = 'YourAccessTokenSecret123' | |
| base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json' | |
| # Create a session object which contains your Twitter credentials | |
| twit = OAuth1Session(twt_key, | |
| client_secret = twt_secret, | |
| resource_owner_key= twt_token, | |
| resource_owner_secret = twt_token_secret) | |
| def sendTweet(my_status): | |
| '''Post a tweet on your Twitter page. my_status is a string.''' | |
| r = twit.post(base_url, params = {'status': my_stat}) | |
| return(json.loads(r.content)) # Return the response from Twitter | |
| # end |
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