twitter-helper

Some code to try out stuff with the Twitter API.

Intended features:

• List most engaged with users
• Find "creeps", or people you're following but not interacting with (no likes, replies, retweets).
  • Can be used to help clean up who you're following.

Getting started

First, you need to obtain API keys from Twitter, you can read about how to do so here: https://docs.tweepy.org/en/stable/authentication.html#oauth-1-0a-user-context

Then, copy .env.example to .env and fill it out with the API credentials.

Then install with:

pip install -e .
# or...
poetry install

Usage

$ twitter-helper --help
Usage: twitter-helper [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  creeps          List creeps
  info            Prints info about the current user
  limits          Checks rate limits
  users-by-likes  List users, sorted by number of your likes

Note: If you are using poetry, you either need to first activate the venv with poetry shell or by prefixing with poetry run, as in: poetry run twitter-helper --help

Limitations

The Twitter API has pretty strict rate limits that make it difficult to work with the data.

To make things easier in the future, there's a need for some form of smart caching/incremental download of tweets/likes/accounts.

Links

You may also be interested in chatalysis, which does similar things but for (group)chats.