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twikit

Twitter API wrapper for python with **no API key required**.


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Twikit

A Simple Twitter API Scraper

You can use functions such as posting or searching for tweets without an API key using this library.

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[!IMPORTANT] With the release of version 2.0.0 on July 11, there have been some specification changes, including the discontinuation of the synchronous version. Existing code will no longer work with v2.0.0 or later, so please refer to the documentation or the code in the examples folder for adjustments. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Features

No API Key Required

This library uses scraping and does not require an API key.

Free

This library is free to use.

Functionality

By using Twikit, you can access functionalities such as the following:

  • Create tweets

  • Search tweets

  • Retrieve trending topics

  • etc...

Installing


pip install twikit

Quick Example

Define a client and log in to the account.

import asyncio
from twikit import Client

USERNAME = 'example_user'
EMAIL = 'email@example.com'
PASSWORD = 'password0000'

# Initialize client
client = Client('en-US')

async def main():
    await client.login(
        auth_info_1=USERNAME ,
        auth_info_2=EMAIL,
        password=PASSWORD
    )

asyncio.run(main())

Create a tweet with media attached.

# Upload media files and obtain media_ids
media_ids = [
    await client.upload_media('media1.jpg'),
    await client.upload_media('media2.jpg')
]

# Create a tweet with the provided text and attached media
await client.create_tweet(
    text='Example Tweet',
    media_ids=media_ids
)

Search the latest tweets based on a keyword

tweets = await client.search_tweet('python', 'Latest')

for tweet in tweets:
    print(
        tweet.user.name,
        tweet.text,
        tweet.created_at
    )

Retrieve user tweets

tweets = await client.get_user_tweets('123456', 'Tweets')

for tweet in tweets:
    print(tweet.text)

Send a dm

await client.send_dm('123456789', 'Hello')

Get trends

await client.get_trends('trending')

More Examples: examples

Contributing

If you encounter any bugs or issues, please report them on issues.

If you find this library useful, consider starring this repository⭐️

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