Return a users tweets with tweepy

Question

I am using tweepy and python 2.7.6 to return the tweets of a specified user

My code looks like:

import tweepy

ckey = 'myckey'
csecret = 'mycsecret'
atoken = 'myatoken'
asecret = 'myasecret'



auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(ckey, csecret)
auth.set_access_token(atoken, asecret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

stuff = api.user_timeline(screen_name = 'danieltosh', count = 100, include_rts = True)

print stuff

However this yields a set of messages which look like<tweepy.models.Status object at 0x7ff2ca3c1050>

Is it possible to print out useful information from these objects? where can I find all of their attributes?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Status model is not really well documented in the tweepy docs.

user_timeline() method returns a list of Status object instances. You can explore the available properties and methods using dir(), or look at the actual implementation.

For example, from the source code you can see that there are author, user and other attributes:

for status in stuff:
    print status.author, status.user

Or, you can print out the _json attribute value which contains the actual response of an API call:

for status in stuff:
    print status._json