api = twitter.Api() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api

Question

I have been trying to write a simple mention grabber to get started with the twitter Api. Howsoever I\'ve been experienceing some difficulties when initializing the Api. Run

Answer 1

Use module python-twitter instead of twitter

$ pip install python-twitter

Reference : https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

For Modules Documentation : https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/twitter.html#modules-documentation

Answer 2

I think you've installed one twitter package, and look at another documentation. Ie: python-1.7.2 is the project from https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter, while you're looking at the http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ documentation. No match between both :)

So for the one you've installed, if you check the source code, a stream example is available, and other various examples in the pydoc:

  from twitter import Twitter
  # ...
  twitter = Twitter(
      auth=OAuth(token, token_key, con_secret, con_secret_key)))

  # Get the public timeline
  twitter.statuses.public_timeline()

Answer 3

i found solution to this problem in following site

[http://himanen.info/solved-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-api/][1]

There are two Python libraries conflicting: twitter library and python-twitter library. The solution was quite straightforward:

pip uninstall twitter

Then I just made it sure that python-twitter was certainly installed:

pip install python-twitter

Thank you himanen it worked for me

Answer 4

i found solution to this problem in following site

[http://himanen.info/solved-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-api/][1]

There are two Python libraries conflicting: twitter library and python-twitter library. The solution was quite straightforward:

pip uninstall twitter Then I just made it sure that python-twitter was certainly installed:

pip install python-twitter thank you himanen..it really works

Answer 5

If you are using the python-twitter wrapper. during installation process it must have created an eggfile with the name twitter.py.egg rename it by some other name like help.py.egg it will work for you.

Answer 6

I got the same error because my python file was called twitter.py. It contained:

import twitter
api = twitter.Api (consumer_key=...

I renamed the file to twitterdata.py, removed twitter.pyc and then it worked.