#Welcome to the Seattle PyLadies Twitter API tutorial Lets get started by creating our project and setting up our environment First create a directory:

mkdir twitter_api_tutorial
cd twitter_api_tutorial

Then we'll create and activate our virtual environment

virtualenv -p python2.7 tut_env
source tut_env/bin/activate

If you don't want or have virtualenv then install pip and the rest globally http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html

python get-pip.py

Now download the Twitter library

pip install twitter

And since we are going to do some fun stuff with our Twitter data, lets install nltk and it's dependencies! http://www.nltk.org/install.html

pip install numpy
pip install pyyaml nltk
pip install matplotlib

Lets check our installs:

python
import numpy
import nltk
import matplotlib

You shouldn't see any errors or any messages if they are correctly installed. And create a requirements.txt file so we can keep track of our installed libraries!

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Now create another directory called app which will hold, you guessed it - our app!

mkdir app
cd app
touch twitter_api.py