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Exercise

Setting up tweepy authentication

In the video, we saw how tweepy can be used to collect Twitter data with the Streaming API. tweepy requires a Twitter API key to authenticate with Twitter.

In this exercise, you will load several objects from tweepy and set up the authentication for the package.

The API keys access_token, access_token_secret, consumer_key, and consumer_secret have already been defined for you.

Instructions
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  • Import OAuthHandler and API from the tweepy module.
  • Pass consumer_key and consumer_secret to OAuthHandler.
  • Set the access tokens with access_token and access_token_secret.
  • Pass the auth object to the API.