Twitter API with Python: Part 1 -- Streaming Live Tweets

In this video, we make use of the Tweepy Python module to stream live tweets directly from Twitter in real-time.

In order to follow along, you will require:

1. A Twitter account,
2. Python.

Assuming you have both of these, go ahead and install the "tweepy" module by running the following command inside a terminal shell.

pip install tweepy

Once we have this, we make a Twitter application that will be used to interface with Python code we will write, and allow us to stream and process live tweets. After creating the Twitter application, we will leverage the "tweepy" module to stream the tweets.

Relevant Links:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnx-7cm4Gg
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhBZqEWsZU4
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MDddgpA4
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tAoscq3C4
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdnTPUFF4gA

Tweepy Website:
http://www.tweepy.org/

Tweepy Docs:
https://tweepy.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/

Create Twitter Application:
https://apps.twitter.com/

GitHub Code for this Video:
https://github.com/vprusso/youtube_tutorials/tree/master/twitter_python/part_1_streaming_tweets

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