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geduldig / TwitterAPI

Minimal python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs
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Not sure where to ask this and can’t figure it out. How to test login w/o sending tweet? #130

Closed mwoolweaver closed 4 years ago

mwoolweaver commented 4 years ago

I have been searching for the way to validate credentials using TwitterAPI and I can’t figure it out for life of me. So I was wondering if you could help me out?

How to test login w/o sending tweet?

geduldig commented 4 years ago

You would make a request for account/verify_credentials. It will return account information documented at https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/manage-account-settings/api-reference/get-account-verify_credentials.

However, I don't think it will tell you if your credentials will allow you to tweet

mwoolweaver commented 4 years ago

So this

r = api.request('account/verify_credentials')

And then parse r as json?

geduldig commented 4 years ago

That's right. The returned value r will be a JSON structure as outlined in the sited doc.

mwoolweaver commented 4 years ago

Thank you for your help!! Would’ve been a while before I got that on my own.