Parsing Twitter JSON object in Python

Question

I am trying to download tweets from twitter.

I have used python and Tweepy for this. Though I am new to both Python and Twitter API.

My Python script is as f

Answer 1

Tweepy gives you richer objects; it parsed the JSON for you.

The SearchResult objects have the same attributes as the JSON structures that Twitter sent; just look up the Tweet documentation to see what is available:

for result in api.search(q="football"):
    print result.text

Demo:

>>> import tweepy
>>> tweepy.__version__
'3.3.0'
>>> consumer_key = ''
>>> consumer_secret = ''
>>> access_token = ''
>>> access_token_secret = ''
>>> auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
>>> auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
>>> api = tweepy.API(auth)
>>> for result in api.search(q="football"):
...     print result.text
... 
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@ajperry18 im sorry I don't know this football shit