Twitter is a popular social network where users share messages called tweets. Twitter allows us to mine the data of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy. The data will be tweets extracted from the user. The first thing to do is get the consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access secret from twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.
me()
The API.me() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the authenticated user’s information.
Syntax : API.me()
Parameter : None
Returns : an object of the class User
Example 1 : Getting the name of the authenticated user. Here we assume that the authenticated user is the Lazyroar twitter account.
# import the module import tweepy # assign the values accordingly consumer_key = "" consumer_secret = "" access_token = "" access_token_secret = "" # authorization of consumer key and consumer secret auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) # set access to user's access key and access secret auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) # calling the api api = tweepy.API(auth) # getting the authenticated user's information user = api.me() # printing the name of the user print("The authenticated user's name is : " + user.name) |
Output :
The authenticated user's name is : Lazyroar
Example 2 : Getting the screen name of the authenticated user. Here we assume that the authenticated user is the Lazyroar twitter account.
# getting the authenticated user's information user = api.me() # printing the screen name of the user print("The authenticated user's screen name is : " + user.screen_name) |
Output :
The authenticated user's screen name is : neveropen
Example 3 : Getting the ID of the authenticated user. Here we assume that the authenticated user is the Lazyroar twitter account.
# getting the authenticated user's information user = api.me() # printing the ID of the user print("The authenticated user's ID is : " + str(user.id)) |
Output :
The authenticated user's ID is : 57741058
Example 4 : Getting the location of the authenticated user. Here we assume that the authenticated user is the Lazyroar twitter account.
# getting the authenticated user's information user = api.me() # printing the location of the user print("The authenticated user's location is : " + user.location) |
Output :
The authenticated user's location is : India
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