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.
API.media_upload()
The media_upload() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to upload a media object to Twitter.
Syntax : API.media_upload(filename, file)
Parameters :
- filename : path of the media file to be uploaded.
- file : a file object to be uploaded.
Returns : an object of class Media
Example 1 :
Python3
# import the moduleimport tweepy# assign the values accordinglyconsumer_key = ""consumer_secret = ""access_token = ""access_token_secret = ""# authorization of consumer key and consumer secretauth = 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)# the name of the media filefilename = "gfg.png"# upload the filemedia = api.media_upload(filename)# printing the informationprint("The media ID is : " + media.media_id_string)print("The size of the file is : " + str(media.size) + " bytes") |
Output :
The media ID is : 1270554007983910912 The size of the file is : 3346 bytes
Example 2 : Finding the dimensions of the image file using the media_upload() method.
Python3
# the name of the media filefilename = "gfg.png"# upload the filemedia = api.media_upload(filename)# printing the dimensionsprint("The width is : " + str(media.image['w']) + " pixels.")print("The height is : " + str(media.image['h']) + " pixels.") |
Output :
The width is : 225 pixels. The height is : 225 pixels.
