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getting most popular hashtags using twitter api

I want to retrieve top 10 or top 20 most popular hashtags from twitter api.

How can I do it, is there any direct api for this or should I collect a large dataset using twitter search api and manually collect popular hashtags?

Solution

  • The Twitter API documentation is here.

    Using Tweepy (Recommended Method) :

    import tweepy

consumer_key ="PUT_YOUR_KEY"
consumer_secret ="PUT_YOUR_KEY"
access_token ="PUT_YOUR_KEY"
access_token_secret ="PUT_YOUR_KEY"

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tags = api.trends_place(23424848) # 23424848 Corresponds to the Yahoo ID for India. Change this to the location that you require.

    If you do not have tweepy installed use :

    pip install tweepy