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How to fetch all the direct messages using Twython?

I am trying to fetch all the direct messages in my account. But I tried to use cursor for fetching. But I'm getting an error like

TypeError: cursor() missing 1 required positional argument: 'function'

My code is below.

from twython import Twython

APP_KEY = 'KEY'
APP_SECRET = 'SECRET'
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'TOKEN'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'SECRET'

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY,APP_SECRET,ACCESS_TOKEN,ACCESS_SECRET)

for tweet in Twython.cursor(twitter.get_direct_messages(),since_id=1,count=100):
print (tweet)

Please help on this.

Solution

  • Pretty sure that you need to invoke the .cursor method on the twitter object, not on the Twython class.

    So try 

    for tweet in twitter.cursor(twitter.get_direct_messages(),since_id=1,count=100):
    print (tweet)

    Specifically, this works for me:

    results = twitter.cursor(twitter.get_direct_messages,count=2)
for result in results:
     print result['text']