May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
Twitter’s APIs are cloud-based web services, so an Internet connection is required to execute the code in this chapter. Web services are methods that you call in the cloud, as you’ll do with the Twitter APIs in this chapter, the IBM Watson APIs in the next chapter and other APIs you’ll use as computing becomes more cloud-based. Each API method has a web service endpoint, which is represented by a URL that’s used to invoke that method over the Internet.
Twitter’s APIs include many categories of functionality, some free and some paid. Most have rate limits that restrict the number of times you can use them in 15-minute intervals. In this chapter, you’ll use the Tweepy library to invoke methods from the following ...
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