Simple Sample for X/Twitter access with Python and https://www.tweepy.org
# Python virtual Environment python3 -m venv twitter ## Activate source twitter/bin/activate # Install tweepy pip install -r requirements.txt # run sample python tweepyTest.py
dotenv tweepy
# Your X API credentials consumer_key = "SECRET_CREDENTIAL" consumer_secret = "SECRET_CREDENTIAL" access_token = "SECRET_CREDENTIAL" access_token_secret = "SECRET_CREDENTIAL" bearer_token = "SECRET_CREDENTIAL"
import os from dotenv import load_dotenv import tweepy # load .env-Cile load_dotenv() # Create a client instance for Twitter API v2 client = tweepy.Client(bearer_token=os.getenv("bearer_token")) # Fetch a user by username username = "IngoKaulbachQS" user = client.get_user(username=username) # Access the user information print(f"User ID: {user.data.id}") print(f"Username: {user.data.username}") print(f"Name: {user.data.name}") print(f"User ID: {user}")