Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Retrieving tweets from a timeline

In the previous script, we can add a get_mentions() function for checking and retrieving new tweets from our mentions timeline. For this task, we can use the timeline endpoint at https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-mentions_timeline.html.

You can find the following code in the twitter_mentions.py file:

#! /usr/bin/python3import requestsimport requests_oauthlibimport sysimport jsondef init_auth(file):    (CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET,OAUTH_TOKEN,OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET) = open(file, 'r').read().splitlines()    auth_obj = requests_oauthlib.OAuth1(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET,    OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)    if verify_credentials(auth_obj): print('Validated credentials OK') ...