****I am trying to obtain information from the twitter timeline of a specific user and I am trying to print the output in Json format, however I am getting an AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute '_json'. I am new to python so I'm having troubles trying to resolve this so any help would be greatly appreciated. ****
Below shows the code that I have at the moment:
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import tweepy
import twitter
def oauth_login():
# credentials for OAuth
CONSUMER_KEY = 'woIIbsmhE0LJhGjn7GyeSkeDiU'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'H2xSc6E3sGqiHhbNJjZCig5KFYj0UaLy22M6WjhM5gwth7HsWmi'
OAUTH_TOKEN = '306848945-Kmh3xZDbfhMc7wMHgnBmuRLtmMzs6RN7d62o3x6i8'
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = 'qpaqkvXQtfrqPkJKnBf09b48TkuTufLwTV02vyTW1kFGunu'
# Creating the authentication
auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth( OAUTH_TOKEN,
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,
CONSUMER_KEY,
CONSUMER_SECRET )
# Twitter instance
twitter_api = twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)
return twitter_api
# LogIn
twitter_api = oauth_login()
# Get statuses
statuses = twitter_api.statuses.user_timeline(screen_name='@ladygaga')
# Print text
for status in statuses:
print (status['text']._json)
You seem to be mixing up tweepy
with twitter
, and are possibly getting a bit confused with methods as a result. The auth process for tweepy
, from your code, should go as follows:
import tweepy
def oauth_login():
# credentials for OAuth
consumer_key = 'YOUR_KEY'
consumer_secret = 'YOUR_KEY'
access_token = 'YOUR_KEY'
access_token_secret = 'YOUR_KEY'
# Creating the authentication
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key,
consumer_secret)
# Twitter instance
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
return tweepy.API(auth)
# LogIn
twitter_api = oauth_login()
# Get statuses
statuses = twitter_api.user_timeline(screen_name='@ladygaga')
# Print text
for status in statuses:
print (status._json['text'])
If, as previously mentioned, you want to create a list of tweets, you could do the following rather than everything after # Print text
# Create a list
statuses_list = [status._json['text'] for status in statuses]
And, as mentioned in the comments, you shouldn't every give out your keys publicly. Twitter lets you reset them, which I'd recommend you do as soon as possible - editing your post isn't enough as people can still read your edit history.