Twitter Application-only Authentication OAuth using Python

Provides a set of functions to allow authentication via Twitter's Application Only Authentication (OAuth) methods written in Python

Project maintained by jonhurlock Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Welcome to jonhurlock's Twitter Application only authentication python scripts

Need to use application authentication-only authentication to access twitter. Well why not use this quick script.

To Use.

  1. Download Script
  2. Edit the lines towards the bottom of the file to reflect your apps consumer key and consumer secret.
  3. Call the get_bearer_token() function to grab a bearer_token
  4. Query the API using the bearer token. Example shown below using the search_for_a_term function.
bearer_token = get_bearer_token(consumer_key,consumer_secret) # generates a bearer token
search_results = search_for_a_tweet(bearer_token, 'test') # does a very basic search
print search_results # prints results form the search

or alternatively if you just want to search for a specific tweet, use the following code.

bearer_token = get_bearer_token(consumer_key,consumer_secret) # generates a bearer token
tweet = grab_a_tweet(bearer_token, '339309066792878080') # grabs a single tweet (and some extra info) by passing the target tweet's id 
print tweet['tweet'] # prints the tweet from the single tweet grabbed

If you have any queries, contact me via twitter at @jonhurlock