CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythontwittertweepy
RRUDARY
RRUDARY

Reputation: 71

Tweet Strings via Tweepy

I'm using tweepy to automatically tweet a list of URLs. However if my list is too long (it can vary from tweet to tweet) I am not allowed. Is there anyway that tweepy can create a thread of tweets when the content is too long? My tweepy code looks like this:

import tweepy

def get_api(cfg):
  auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(cfg['consumer_key'], 
cfg['consumer_secret'])
  auth.set_access_token(cfg['access_token'], 
cfg['access_token_secret'])
  return tweepy.API(auth)

def main():
  # Fill in the values noted in previous step here
  cfg = { 
    "consumer_key"        : "VALUE",
    "consumer_secret"     : "VALUE",
    "access_token"        : "VALUE",
    "access_token_secret" : "VALUE" 
    }

  api = get_api(cfg)
  tweet = "Hello, world!"
  status = api.update_status(status=tweet) 
  # Yes, tweet is called 'status' rather confusing

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

Upvotes: 3

Views: 583

Answers (1)

alphazwest
alphazwest

Reputation: 4470

Your code isn't relevant to the problem you're trying to solve. Not only does main() not seem to take any arguments (tweet text?) but you don't show how you are currently trying approaching the matter. Consider the following code:

import random

TWEET_MAX_LENGTH = 280

# Sample Tweet Seed
tweet = """I'm using tweepy to automatically tweet a list of URLs. However if my list is too long (it can vary from tweet to tweet) I am not allowed."""

# Creates list of tweets of random length
tweets = []
for _ in range(10):
    tweets.append(tweet * (random.randint(1, 10)))

# Print total initial tweet count and list of lengths for each tweet.
print("Initial Tweet Count:", len(tweets), [len(x) for x in tweets])

# Create a list for formatted tweet texts
to_tweet = []
for tweet in tweets:
    while len(tweet) > TWEET_MAX_LENGTH:

        # Take only first 280 chars
        cut = tweet[:TWEET_MAX_LENGTH]

        # Save as separate tweet to do later
        to_tweet.append(cut)

        # replace the existing 'tweet' variable with remaining chars
        tweet = tweet[TWEET_MAX_LENGTH:]

    # Gets last tweet or those < 280
    to_tweet.append(tweet)

# Print total final tweet count and list of lengths for each tweet
print("Formatted Tweet Count:", len(to_tweet), [len(x) for x in to_tweet])

It's separated out as much as possible for ease-of-interpretation. The gist is that one could start with a list of text to be used as tweets. The variable TWEET_MAX_LENGTH defines where each tweet would be split to allow for multi-tweets.

The to_tweet list would contain each tweet, in the order of your initial list, expanded into multiple tweets of <= TWEET_MAX_LENGTH length strings.

You could use that list to feed into your actual tweepy function that posts. This approach is pretty willy-nilly and doesn't do any checks for maintaining sequence of split tweets. Depending on how you're implenting your final tweet functions, that might be an issue but also a matter for a separate question.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions