How to include embedded links in tweet with tweepy?

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I’m trying to create a program that will download tweets from a user timeline as per Client.get_users_tweets method and look for external links inside those tweets.
From what I could gather, these objects reside into the entities field, but so far my query

author_id = 12345
Client.get_users_tweets(author_id, tweet_fields = ['entities'])

yelds the tweets with an empty entity attribute.

I’m probably missing something in the attachments field, but I can’t figure out what.

Asked By: S. Neri

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Answer 1

You gonna need the tweepy.Client class in Tweepy v4.x for that, first install tweepy pip install tweepy==4.3.0

Then you can use python like this for example:

import tweepy

API_KEY = "your_api_key"
API_SECRET = "your_api_secret"
BEARER_TOKEN = "your_bearer_token"

client = tweepy.Client(bearer_token=BEARER_TOKEN)

author_id = 12345
tweets = client.get_users_tweets(author_id, expansions=['entities.urls'])

for tweet in tweets:
    if 'entities' in tweet and 'urls' in tweet.entities:
        for url in tweet.entities.urls:
            print(url.expanded_url)

Dont forget to replace API_KEY, API_SECRET, and BEARER_TOKEN with your own credential.

Answered By: Saxtheowl

How to include embedded links in tweet with tweepy?

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