Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Maintenance is no fun
I had fun creating @py3k_update, a twitter account that would send tweets announcing new libraries that are python 3 compatible. More here: http://wilsonericn.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/python-3-library-updates-via-twitter/
But when the page that I was scraping changed format, there was no joy in figuring out what to change to get the updates working accurately. I’ve got other fun and worthwhile things to do, both in programming, and in real life.
So thanks much to the 200+ folks that found @py3k_update worth following, I hope that you appreciated what it did provide, and aren’t too disappointed to see its demise.
Python 3 Library updates, via twitter
I’ve launched a new twitter account, @Py3K_update, which will send out tweets to notify followers when Python packages support Python 3. If this sounds like information that you want, please follow and/or tweet about this account.
If you are curious about the details, read on.
Tweeting in Python – the easy way
Suppose you want to send tweets from Python code from your own Twitter account. How hard could that be? It’s Python, so the batteries are included right?
It turns out that the Python side is pretty slick, but there are some issues about interacting with Twitter that aren’t as easy as you could imagine.
Do I need to use a library?
The mature Python Twitter libraries, (Python Twitter Tools, and Python Twitter) will allow you to do anything that you could want with the Twitter API. But you’re just trying to send tweets, you don’t need to look at your friends’ timelines’. Maybe this approach is more what you are looking for?
Well not exactly like that. That approach uses Basic Authentication, which is no longer supported. Whatever you do will require OAuth, so it’s definitely going to take less time to use a library for novice twitter devs.
