Python 3.8.3 : Using twitter application with python-twitter - part 001.

You need to create a application for your twitter user developer on this webpage.

The next step is to get all keys and tokens from your application.

I used the python-twitter see the official webpage documentation.

Let's install this python module using the pip tool

pip install python-twitter
Collecting python-twitter
...
Installing collected packages: oauthlib, requests-oauthlib, python-twitter
Successfully installed oauthlib-3.1.0 python-twitter-3.5 requests-oauthlib-1.3.0

Let's see a simple source code:

import os
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import twitter
import datetime
from datetime import *

consumer_key=' '
consumer_secret=' '
token_key=' '
token_secret=' '

def get_tweets(api=None, screen_name=None):
    timeline = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=screen_name, count=200)
    earliest_tweet = min(timeline, key=lambda x: x.id).id
    print("getting tweets before:", earliest_tweet)

    while True:
        tweets = api.GetUserTimeline(
            screen_name=screen_name, max_id=earliest_tweet, count=200
        )
        new_earliest = min(tweets, key=lambda x: x.id).id

        if not tweets or new_earliest == earliest_tweet:
            break
        else:
            earliest_tweet = new_earliest
            print("getting tweets before:", earliest_tweet)
            timeline += tweets

    return timeline

if __name__ == "__main__":
    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=consumer_key,
                  consumer_secret=consumer_secret,
                  access_token_key=token_key,
                  access_token_secret=token_secret) 
    # print api 
    #print(dir(api))
    
    # print all users of this account authentificated 
    #users = api.GetFriends()
    #print([u.screen_name for u in users])
    
    # print all tweets of my user catafest 
    screen_name = "catafest"
    timeline = get_tweets(api=api, screen_name=screen_name)
    dates = []
    for x in timeline:
        created = x.created_at
        dates.append(created)
        
    print(dates)
    dat = [datetime.strptime(d, "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y") for d in dates]

    levels = np.tile([-8, 8, -4, 4, -1, 1],int(np.ceil(len(dat)/3)))[:len(dat)]
    print(levels)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7.6, 5), constrained_layout=True)
    ax.set(title="Twitter dates")
    markerline, stemline, baseline = ax.stem(dat, levels,linefmt="C3-", basefmt="k-",use_line_collection=True)
    markerline.set_ydata(np.zeros(len(dat)))
    plt.setp(markerline, mec="k", mfc="w", zorder=1)
    plt.show()

The result of this script comes with this output:

python .\test_webpage_001.py
getting tweets before: 1123237192422367234
['Mon May 18 13:52:09 +0000 2020', 'Sat May 09 11:14:43 +0000 2020', 'Fri May 08 10:42:18 +0000 2020', 
'Fri May 08 10:41:37 +0000 2020', 'Sat May 02 17:41:07 +0000 2020', 'Sat May 02 17:39:15 +0000 2020', 
'Thu Apr 30 12:53:48 +0000 2020', 'Tue Apr 28 20:00:38 +0000 2020', 'Mon Apr 27 21:12:07 +0000 2020', 
'Fri Apr 24 16:39:58 +0000 2020', 'Fri Apr 24 16:09:26 +0000 2020', 'Sat Apr 11 16:56:40 +0000 2020', 
'Sun Mar 22 19:11:16 +0000 2020', 'Sat Mar 21 09:03:30 +0000 2020', 'Sat Mar 21 09:02:48 +0000 2020', 
'Sat Mar 21 08:59:18 +0000 2020', 'Mon Mar 16 06:29:34 +0000 2020', 'Fri Jan 24 19:59:38 +0000 2020', 
'Sat Jan 18 12:14:07 +0000 2020', 'Fri Jan 17 20:58:18 +0000 2020', 'Thu Jan 16 20:50:47 +0000 2020', 
'Thu Jan 16 20:49:16 +0000 2020', 'Fri Jan 03 17:57:33 +0000 2020', 'Sat Dec 28 10:14:11 +0000 2019', 
'Tue Apr 30 14:46:30 +0000 2019']
[-8  8 -4  4 -1  1 -8  8 -4  4 -1  1 -8  8 -4  4 -1  1 -8  8 -4  4 -1  1 -8]

The image show with matplotlib is this: