https://github.com/hacksu/learnpythonviatweepy
Walkthrough to learn Python on pythonanywhere.com.
https://github.com/hacksu/learnpythonviatweepy
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Walkthrough to learn Python on pythonanywhere.com.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hacksu/learnpythonviatweepy
- Owner: hacksu
- Created: 2017-10-17T18:41:41.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-10-02T21:51:07.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-21T16:58:07.629Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: beginner, lesson
- Size: 7.81 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Learn Python Via Tweepy
If you're here just for the authorization code, skip down to **Authorizing Our Twitter App**
Today we're going to learn the basics of Python, via [Python Anywhere](http://pythonanywhere.com). Python is language that doesn't come on all computers, so Python Anywhere lets us use it without the pain of installing it manually.
_If you're interested in installing Python on your local machine, you can do so [here](https://www.python.org/downloads/). it's worth noting that Mac OS has Python 2.7 preinstalled on their machines, but we'll be using Python 3.6. _
## Setting Up Our Project
First, we need to set up an account on [Python Anywhere](http://pythonanywhere.com). You don't even need to confirm your email.
Once you have an account, go to the Files tab, and make a new file called `myScriptName.py` (you can replace `myScriptName` with whatever, just make sure it ends in `.py`).
With the file open, let's walk through a basic example of a Python script.
Python is a cool language that simplifies a lot of things about code. We won't go into detail about how python works in this tutorial, but here's a sample script that will iterate through 15 numbers, and output the square for all of those numbers, with a special message for number 10:
```
for a in range(15):
b = a * a
if a == 10:
print ("You should already know that 10 squared is 100, dummy!")
else:
print ("%d squared is equal to %d!" % (a, b))
```
Just hit RUN to check it out!
# Authorizing our Twitter App
***IMPORTANT:*** **Twitter doesn't like spammy twitter profiles, and I don't want to get this account suspended!** I'm giving you authorization to post on the account, and ***every time you run api.update_status successfully,*** it will send out a tweet. I'm asking that you please limit your posts to ***2 tweets per 10 minutes.*** The twitter limit is 100 tweets/hour, and I don't want us to get banned!
Here's the twitter account this code is hooked up to: [@mic_drop_bot](https://twitter.com/Mic_Drop_Bot). I used him for an old old hackathon project.
Once you've read that, you may run the following code to tweet something:
```
# This line imports the library Tweepy, which is pre-installed in PythonAnywhere
import tweepy
# I generated these keys at http://apps.twitter.com
# Note that you need a twitter account with a validated phone number for this
# Please don't abuse this info!
#
consumer_key = 'msLJGoIZx7hMxWv6eszGGOBfi'
consumer_secret = 'azXQeRpFj9Wowfnrhj1M4CcMgVm5Kp9SXhppPNx26MfLHHivUA'
access_token = '3914186835-ml58nTscOP4TbwuDK1U2aA0YiA1PtlOjlUMPrJH'
access_token_secret = 'JqJdbB4Hj9U52iiEQ1yxDpn2xPxMs0wlx8i3ncCna75LE'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Below are some examples of what we can now do -- just uncomment the relevant lines to run
tweet = """
My First Automated Tweet -- hello world!
"""
# Uncomment the next line to send the above tweet:
# api.update_status(status=tweet)
# Uncomment the next line to follow the twitter user @username:
# api.create_friendship('username')
# Uncomment the next 3 lines to print the last 20ish tweets from @_hacksu:
# tweets = api.user_timeline('_hacksu')
# for i in tweets:
# print (i.text)
```