API Authentication

The package tweepy is great at handling all the Twitter API OAuth Authentication details for you. All you need to do is to pass your authentication credentials to it. In this interactive exercise, we have created some mock authentication credentials (if you wanted to replicate this at home, you would need to create a Twitter App as Hugo detailed in the video). Your task is to pass these credentials to tweepy's OAuth handler.

This exercise is part of the course

Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import the package tweepy.
Pass the parameters consumer_key and consumer_secret to the function tweepy.OAuthHandler().
Complete the passing of OAuth credentials to the OAuth handler auth by applying to it the method set_access_token(), along with arguments access_token and access_token_secret.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import package


# Store OAuth authentication credentials in relevant variables
access_token = "1092294848-aHN7DcRP9B4VMTQIhwqOYiB14YkW92fFO8k8EPy"
access_token_secret = "X4dHmhPfaksHcQ7SCbmZa2oYBBVSD2g8uIHXsp5CTaksx"
consumer_key = "nZ6EA0FxZ293SxGNg8g8aP0HM"
consumer_secret = "fJGEodwe3KiKUnsYJC3VRndj7jevVvXbK2D5EiJ2nehafRgA6i"

# Pass OAuth details to tweepy's OAuth handler
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(____, ____)
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