Published on Aug. 19, 2019, 6:31 a.m.
This object is basically the instance of the user which is authenticated using the credentials, and which has an access to the Twitter API.
class TwitterClientObj:
def __init__(self, twitter_user_id=None):
"""
twitter_user_id=None defaults to our user id
"""
self.auth = TwitterAuthenticaterObj().authenticate_twitter_app()
self.twitter_client = API(self.auth)
self.twitter_user_id = twitter_user_id
def get_twitter_client_api(self):
return self.twitter_client
def get_user_timeline_tweets(self, num_tweets):
"""
Extracts the tweets that were tweeted by the user himself
"""
user_tweets = []
for tweet in Cursor(self.twitter_client.user_timeline, id=self.twitter_user_id).items(num_tweets):
user_tweets.append(tweet)
return user_tweets
def get_user_friend_list(self, num_friends):
"""
Extracts the friends of a twitter user
"""
friend_list = []
for friend in Cursor(self.twitter_client.friends, id=self.twitter_user_id).items(num_friends):
friend_list.append(friend)
return friend_list
def get_home_timeline_tweets(self, num_tweets):
""""
Extracts the home timeline tweets (the tweets that were tweeted by users' followees) of the user
"""
home_timeline_tweets = []
for tweet in Cursor(self.twitter_client.home_timeline, id=self.twitter_user_id).items(num_tweets):
home_timeline_tweets.append(tweet)
return home_timeline_tweets