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Python Social Media Analytics
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Python Social Media Analytics

by Siddhartha Chatterjee, Michal Krystyanczuk
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Selecting the endpoint

An endpoint indicates where a particular resource can be accessed. It is represented by an URL that contains the name of the action. Even though there are multiple endpoints for each API, we will focus on those used in the next chapters of the book. All other endpoints/actions you can find in the official API documentation.

The Twitter REST API allows clients to retrieve a sample of tweets based on search criteria. The search request is made up of a Boolean query with some additional optional parameters (to, from, list, url, and filter). We will store the endpoint URL for this resource in a url variable:

url_rest = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json" 

Similarly, we will use an endpoint URL for the Streaming ...

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