Twitter Plugin

About

This plugin is designed on top of the Twitter API V2 with OAuth 1.0a flow. The twitter API uses OAuth 2.0. The plugin is accessing the twitter API using tweepy an easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API

Data imported

In this plugin, the data fetched for a given user handle includes:

• User timeline tweets (id, content, mentions (only if already processed), date, author)

Data to be imported

• User account (id, handle, name, description, profile picture)
• Followers and following accounts (id, handle, name, description, profile picture)

Building the Docker image

Development flow

Development flow

    pip install -e .[dev]
    pre-commit install

Make sure to have pod running locally with the following environment variables set, or use the dev pod at https://dev.pod.memri.io.

TWITTER_V2_CLIENT_ID
TWITTER_V2_CLIENT_SECRET

Your pod needs an access token to run the plugin. Get an access token by running the following command.

    twitter-oauth

This will open a browser window and ask you to login to twitter and authorize the pod defined by keys.json

Using dev pod? Then run:

    twitter-oauth --pod dev

Now you can run the plugin locally by running the following command:

    run_plugin --metadata metadata.json

To run tests

pytest ./tests/