Description

There are two parts to bitter. First of all, it is a wrapper over Python twitter that adds support for several Twitter API credentials (e.g. authorizing the same app with different user accounts). Secondly, it is a command line tool to automate several actions (e.g. downloading user networks) using the wrapper.

Instructions

In the command line:

python -m bitter --help

or

bitter --help

Programmatically:

from bitter import easy
wq = easy()
print(wq.users.show(user_name='balkian'))

You can also make custom calls to the API through the command line. e.g. to get the latest 500 tweets by the python software foundation:

bitter api statuses/user_timeline --id thepsf --count 500

Examples

The CLI can query the rest API:

bitter api <URL endpoint> --parameter VALUE ... | [--tweets | --users] [--max_count MAX_COUNT] [--count COUNT_PER_CALL]

For instance:

# Get 100 tweets that mentioned Obama after tweet 942689870501302300
bitter api '/search/tweets' --since_id 942689870501302300 --count 100 --q Obama

That is equivalent to this call to the api: api/1.1/searc/tweets?since_id=942689870501302300&count=100&q=Obama.

The flags --tweets and --users are optional. If you use them, bitter will try to intelligently fetch all the tweets/users by using pagination with the API.

For example:

# Download 1000 tweets, 100 tweets per call.
bitter api '/search/tweets' --since_id 942689870501302300 --count 100 --q Obama --max_count=1000 --tweets

# Download all the followers of @balkian
bitter api 'followers/list' --_id balkian --users --max_count -1

Note that some reserved words (such as id) have to be preceeded by an underscore. This limitation is imposed by the python-twitter library.

Configuration format

credentials:
- user: "balkian"
  consumer_secret: "xxx"
  consumer_key: "xxx"
  token_key: "xxx"
  token_secret: "xxx"
- user: ....

By default, bitter uses '~/.bitter.yaml', but you may choose a different file:

python -m bitter --config <config_file> ...

Or use an environment variable:

export BITTER_CONFIG=$(cat myconfig.yaml)

Server

To add more users to the credentials file, you may run the builtin server, with the consumer key and secret of your app:

python -m bitter server <consumer_key> <consumer_secret>

If you get an error about missing dependencies, install the extra dependencies for the server. e.g.:

pip install bitter[web]

Make sure the callback url of your app is set to http://127.0.0.1:5000/callback_url/

Notice

Please, use according to Twitter's Terms of Service

TODO

• Tests
• Docs