How to tweet via Python script?

#python #tutorial #help #beginners

What do you need to install?

Python
Tweepy : Tweepy is a python library for accessing Twitter API.
Developer account in Twitter

Steps

Create a test file name test.py in your working directory.
Write the following here

import tweepy

# Consumer keys and access tokens from twitter developer console
CONSUMER_SECRET = '####'
CONSUMER_KEY = '###'
ACCESS_SECRET = '####'
ACCESS_KEY = '###'

# OAuth authentication connection from 
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)

# Creation of the actual interface, using authentication
tweet = tweepy.API(auth)

# Write tweet here
tweet.update_status("Hi from API" )