Twitter API with Python: Part 2 -- Cursor and Pagination

Published: 16 January 2018
on channel: LucidProgramming
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In this video, we will continue with our use of the Tweepy Python module and the code that we wrote from Part 1 of this series:
   • Twitter API with Python: Part 1 -- St...  

The goal of this video will be to understand how Tweepy handles pagination, that is, how can we use Tweepy to comb over the various pages of tweets? We will see how to accomplish this by making use of Tweepy's Cursor module. In doing so, we will be able to directly access tweets, followers, and other information directly from our own timeline. We will also continue to improve the code that we wrote from Part 1

Relevant Links:

Part 1:    • Twitter API with Python: Part 1 -- St...  
Part 2:    • Twitter API with Python: Part 2 -- Cu...  
Part 3:    • Twitter API with Python: Part 3 -- An...  
Part 4:    • Twitter API with Python: Part 4 -- Vi...  
Part 5:    • Twitter API with Python: Part 5 -- Se...  

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

Cursor Docs:
http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/curs...

API Reference:
http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/api....

GitHub Code for this Video:
https://github.com/vprusso/youtube_tu...

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