I want to setup a bot, which will read tweets from a twitter user and store. I can find several examples on search for particular key words, post ID etc.
Can any one recommend which api call is required for monitoring one particular user?
I want to setup a bot, which will read tweets from a twitter user and store. I can find several examples on search for particular key words, post ID etc.
Can any one recommend which api call is required for monitoring one particular user?
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use tweepy for data mining from twitter https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
The Twitter API call you would use is
statuses/user_timeline
. The documentation is here.Some python examples to get you started with using Twitter are here.