Create twitter_peek.py: Simple Twitter tweets peek

README.md

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twitter_peek/requirements.txt

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+tweepy==3.8.0

twitter_peek/twitter_peek.py

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+""" A Twitter Listener to seek tweets from specific users """
+
+from pprint import pprint
+from tweepy import OAuthHandler
+from tweepy import API
+from tweepy import Cursor
+
+# All those keys could ge obtained though your twitter account
+consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_TWITTER_KEY"
+consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET_TWITTER_KEY"
+access_token = "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN"
+access_token_secret = "TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET_TOKEN"
+
+
+class TwitterPeeker:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
+        self.auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
+        self.auth_api = API(self.auth)
+
+    def get_first_n_tweets(self, target_account, tweet_quantity):
+        tweets = []
+        for status in Cursor(self.auth_api.user_timeline, id=target_account).items(tweet_quantity):
+            tweets.append(status.text)
+        return tweets
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    target_account = 'TheGentlebros'
+    tweet_quantity = 10
+    twitter_peeker = TwitterPeeker()
+    pprint(twitter_peeker.get_first_n_tweets(target_account, tweet_quantity), indent=4)