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15.4: Twitter API Basics - Twitter Bot Tutorial

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This video covers the basics of the twitter API. What are the basic commands -- get, post, stream? How do you search twitter? How do you post a tweet? How do you trigger a function callback when a twitter event occurs? All examples: https://github.com/shiffman/Video-Lesson-Materials Twit package: https://github.com/ttezel/twit Twitter API documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/ Contact: https://twitter.com/shiffman Next video: https://youtu.be/ZvsqQjwrISQ Learn JavaScript basics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA Learn Processing basics: https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/playlists?sort=dd&shelf_id=2&view=50 More about data and APIs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6a-SQiI4RtIwuOrLJGnel0r Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/Qbtp/ 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct

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'text': 'write out the results to a text file and then I can look at it later and I could show you a technique for doing that at some point.', 'start': 482.871, 'duration': 5.361}, {'end': 498.754, 'text': "But here we can actually, I could even probably pretty easily kind of figure out that I think what I'm looking for scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.", 'start': 488.572, 'duration': 10.182}, {'end': 506.862, 'text': "this is actually really hard to find is I'm looking for status text of source.", 'start': 498.754, 'duration': 8.108}, {'end': 508.203, 'text': 'There it is, text.', 'start': 506.902, 'duration': 1.301}], 'summary': "Struggling to find 'status text of source' in the results.", 'duration': 25.332, 'max_score': 482.871, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/7-nX3YOC4OA/pics/7-nX3YOC4OA482871.jpg'}, {'end': 590.367, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 558.86, 'weight': 0.801, 'content': [{'end': 565.943, 'text': "there's all sorts of things you can find out in there, but at least now we could try running it again and you can see I got.", 'start': 558.86, 'duration': 7.083}, {'end': 568.625, 'text': 'program your own rainbow, dash Vote.', 'start': 565.943, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 571.789, 'text': "it's Manuela, Alex, because a double rainbow is hard to find.", 'start': 568.625, 'duration': 3.164}, {'end': 574.692, 'text': 'So you can see I got the raw text from those tweets there.', 'start': 571.809, 'duration': 2.883}, {'end': 576.754, 'text': 'So again, this is it.', 'start': 575.012, 'duration': 1.742}, {'end': 578.136, 'text': "There's not a lot of code here.", 'start': 576.774, 'duration': 1.362}, {'end': 583.162, 'text': 'We spent all this time figuring out how to install that package because the package does it all for you.', 'start': 579.297, 'duration': 3.865}, {'end': 586.706, 'text': 'So we now are able to search Twitter and go through it now.', 'start': 583.422, 'duration': 3.284}, {'end': 590.367, 'text': "You 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{'end': 934.664, 'text': "But for now, let's just see if this works.", 'start': 933.224, 'duration': 1.44}, {'end': 936.825, 'text': "So I'm excited to see what happens.", 'start': 935.124, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 938.166, 'text': "I'm going to go back here.", 'start': 937.205, 'duration': 0.961}, {'end': 941.067, 'text': 'And I made this, by the way, a file called bot2.', 'start': 938.386, 'duration': 2.681}, {'end': 943.068, 'text': "So I'm going to run bot2 right now.", 'start': 941.147, 'duration': 1.921}, {'end': 943.948, 'text': "I'm going to run it.", 'start': 943.428, 'duration': 0.52}, {'end': 944.769, 'text': 'The bot is starting.', 'start': 943.988, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 946.049, 'text': 'I say that it worked.', 'start': 945.069, 'duration': 0.98}, {'end': 948.37, 'text': "I'm going to go to Twitter.", 'start': 946.409, 'duration': 1.961}, {'end': 949.531, 'text': 'Oh my god, this is like.', 'start': 948.39, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 952.204, 'text': "Uh, where am I going? I don't know.", 'start': 950.482, 'duration': 1.722}, {'end': 953.325, 'text': "I'm like way too excited here.", 'start': 952.284, 'duration': 1.041}, {'end': 955.688, 'text': "I'm going to go to my A to Z account.", 'start': 953.706, 'duration': 1.982}, {'end': 958.631, 'text': "And I'm going to see that there it is.", 'start': 956.428, 'duration': 2.203}, {'end': 961.434, 'text': "There's my tweet that I tweeted from Node.", 'start': 959.031, 'duration': 2.403}, {'end': 963.576, 'text': 'Hashtag code.', 'start': 961.714, 'duration': 1.862}, {'end': 965.938, 'text': 'It looks like it says code and grain bow, but..', 'start': 963.636, 'duration': 2.302}], 'summary': 'Successfully posted a tweet from node to twitter account.', 'duration': 49.165, 'max_score': 916.773, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/7-nX3YOC4OA/pics/7-nX3YOC4OA916773.jpg'}, {'end': 1005.852, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 976.662, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 979.823, 'text': 'And then I could have put all those things into an array.', 'start': 976.662, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 981.643, 'text': 'And then I could have taken one word from each tweet.', 'start': 979.843, 'duration': 1.8}, {'end': 982.564, 'text': 'And I could have mashed them up.', 'start': 981.663, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 987.265, 'text': 'The possibilities are endless of what you can do in terms of querying and reposting.', 'start': 983.204, 'duration': 4.061}, {'end': 993.147, 'text': 'Or you could make a Twitter bot that just picks a random number and tweets the random number every time you run it.', 'start': 987.345, 'duration': 5.802}, {'end': 1000.63, 'text': 'So what I would do is come up with some really sort of drop dead, simple idea of how you might generate a tweet just from a little bit of code,', 'start': 993.167, 'duration': 7.463}, {'end': 1005.852, 'text': 'a random number or something, or pick something from an array, or even, just like hard code the tweet in there.', 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