ShowTweets

Description

Displays twitter messages (aka tweets) from a users timeline.

Download & Release Notes

Dependencies:

• Twitter for Python: http://tweepy.github.io/ (e.g. install with  easy_install tweepy )

Initial Configuration

Since twitter requires OAUTH, you have to register this "macro" on twitter:

• consumer_key / consumer_secret = under https://dev.twitter.com/apps (under "OAuth settings")

• access_token / access_token_secret = under https://dev.twitter.com/apps (located under "Your access token")

and configure those into your macro ShowTweets.py:

   1 #OAUTH configuration (you have to configure this!)
   2     consumer_key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
   3     consumer_secret="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
   4     access_token="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
   5     access_token_secret="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
   6     auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
   7     auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

Parameters

Optional macro parameters are:

• user=TwitterUserAccount
  if no twitter username is given, your own is used.

• maxTweets=10
  how many tweets should be fetched (default 10)

• noReply=True
  show no reply tweets

Security

Be aware that if you configure & use this macro on a "public" wiki, other users can access (with your credentials!!!) other twitter acounts. To avoid this you can add a fixed username, e.g somewhere in the #Initial stuff area, like:

   1 user = "<twitteraccount>"

Example

To display the tweets from the User "twitter" do this:

<<ShowTweets("twitter")>>

screenshot how it could look:

Copyright & Licence

2009, 2010, 2013 by MarcelHäfner (http://moinmo.in/MarcelHäfner) / GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.

Licences for dependencies:

• Tweepy is under MIT Licence

Bugs

Discussion

2010-05-19: Tipps

Hi

cool, we should have had that too for our python bar camp. But we will for the next one. It needs some little more work

Please have a look at the indenting. fixed

looks strange because of def macro_ShowTweets(macro, user=u"Twitter",maxTweets=10, debug=False) it is user, or? user = twitter user account

api = twitter.Api(username=username,.. won't work too removed, and added a note how to activate

if debug == False: if not debug: not needed

Please escape also the content of the tweet. sure

cheers

• -- ReimarBauer 2010-05-19 16:47:13

many thanks for you tricks & tipps -- MarcelHäfner 2010-05-20 23:44:59

The date and time of the Tweets are always the date and time of the top entry. The index of statuses in line 115 should be tweetCount. The variable tweetNumber in line 78 is unused then and can be deleted. -- DirkAlders 2014-01-18 15:41:17

Patch for tweepy

My patch to fix this by switching from python-twitter to tweepy: http://pastebin.com/ZnX2qJsf and add an option to hide @replies from results. -- FelixYan 2024-04-20 16:13:15 integrated, thanks