Python Tweepy – Getting the text of a tweet

27 July 2024

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In this article we will see how we can get the text of a status/tweet. A tweet can only have a maximum of 280 characters. The text attribute of the Status object provides us with the text of the status.

Identifying the text of the status in the GUI :

In the above mentioned status, the text of the status is :

A programmer’s takeaway from the pandemic: Local variables over Global variables.

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In order to get the text of the status, we have to do the following :

Identify the status ID of the status from the GUI.

Get the Status object of the status using the get_status() method with the status ID. If we want to get the complete text, pass another parameter tweet_mode = "extended".

From this object, fetch the text attribute present in it. If we want to get the complete text, fetch the attribute full_text.

Example 1 : Consider the following status :

We will use the status ID to fetch the status. The status ID of the above mentioned status is 1272771459249844224.

# 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) 
  
# the ID of the status 
id = 1272771459249844224
  
# fetching the status 
status = api.get_status(id) 
  
# fetching the text attribute 
text = status.text  
  
print("The text of the status is : \n\n" + text) 

Output :

The text of the status is : 

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Example 2 : Consider the following status :

We will use the status ID to fetch the status. The status ID of the above mentioned status is 1272479136133627905. This time we will be fetching the complete text of the status. While using the get_status() method also pass tweet_mode = "extended" as a parameter. Then fetch the complete text using the full_text attribute.

# the ID of the status 
id = 1272479136133627905
  
# fetching the status with extended tweet_mode 
status = api.get_status(id, tweet_mode = "extended") 
  
# fetching the full_text attribute 
full_text = status.full_text  
  
print("The text of the status is : \n\n" + full_text) 

Output :

The text of the status is : 

"I am thankful to programming for _______________."

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Last Updated :
18 Jun, 2020