Python Social Media Analytics

Using requests to connect

Firstly, we include all necessary libraries. We have added the json library to be able to parse easily the outputs of the Twitter API and urllib.parse, which encodes a query string into a proper request URL:

import requests 
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1 
import json 
from urllib.parse import urlparse 

In the first place, we define parameters that will be used to establish connections with the Twitter API and we create an OAuth client connection:

params = { 
'app_key':'YOUR_APP_KEY',  'app_secret':'YOUR_APP_SECRET',  'oauth_token':'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN',  'oauth_token_secret':'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET' 
} 
 
auth = OAuth1( 
params['app_key'],    params['app_secret'],    params['oauth_token'],  params['oauth_token_secret'] ...