Tutorial by Examples

Tweepy can be installed from its PyPI repository using pip or easy_install: pip install tweepy or easy_install tweepy You can also download the source from GitHub and install it using setup.py: python setup.py install See the tweepy documentation for more.

The Search API provides access to recent tweets*. This is as opposed to the Stream API, which provides search results in real-time. <example> *Note that "the Search API is focused on relevance and not completeness" - Twitter Search API

The Stream API provides access to tweets in real-time. Streams can be filtered based on keywords, language, location, and more. Here's a simple example to track mentions of the word "tweepy": #set up a new class using tweepy.StreamListener class SimpleListener(tweepy.StreamListener): ...