Accessing Twitter API resources

The created object has access to the GET and POST resources of the Twitter API, which are listed in the reference index: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/api-reference-index.

The Twitter package transforms the responses of the Twitter API, of JSON format, to a Python object. The Twitter API uses the JSON format by default to transmit information, but the Twitter module transforms the information into a dictionary-type object. This query returns the last two tweets related to Python in the English language:

>>> search= twitter.search.tweets(q="python", lang="en", count="2")
>>> for item in search.keys():
 >>>    print(item)

In this script, we can see an example of an application that consumes the Twitter API, gets a search term from the user input, and saves the results in a JSON file. You can find the following code in the twitter_search.py file:

#! /usr/bin/python3
import twitter, json

def twitter_connection(file):
    '''Create the object from which the Twitter API will be consumed,reading the credentials from a file, defined in path parameter.'''
    (CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET,OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET) = open(file, 'r').read().splitlines()
    auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET)
    return twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)

def recently_tweets(tw, search_term):
    '''Get the last 10 tweets in English from a specific search.'''
    search = tw.search.tweets(q=search_term, lang="en", count="10")["statuses"]
    print(search)
    return search

def save_tweets(tweets, file):
    '''Store the tweets in JSON format in the specified file.'''
    with open(file, "w") as f:
        json.dump(tweets, f, indent=1)

def main(file='tweets.json'):
    try:
        search_term = input("Enter the search term in twitter : ")
        tw = twitter_connection("credentials.txt")
        tweets = recently_tweets(tw, search_term)
        save_tweets(tweets, file)
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()