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parallelpythontwitter 0.2.0

parallel-python-twitter

A client that distributes Twitter API requests across multiple keys. Built for Python 3.6.
Getting Started
First, get your API credentials together and get a list of twitter.Api objects:
import parallel_twitter
TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_KEY = ...
TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_SECRET = ...
OAUTHS = [
{
'oauth_token': ...,
'oauth_token_secret': ...
},
{
'oauth_token': ...,
'oauth_token_secret': ...
},
...
]
apis = parallel_twitter.oauth_dicts_to_apis(
oauth_dicts=OAUTHS,
api_consumer_key=TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_KEY,
api_consumer_secret=TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_SECRET
)

Next, try out some of the examples:
user_ids = [
561808704, # @neeljsomani
813286, # @BarackObama
17919972 # @taylorswift13
]
# Get a list of posts that these users liked
parallel_twitter.examples.pull_users_likes(
users=user_ids,
apis=apis
)
# Get a list of these users' posts + number of likes
parallel_twitter.examples.pull_users_posts(
users=user_ids,
apis=apis
)

Comparison with Twint
Twint is a Python library for scraping data from Twitter.

From Twint's documentation: "Twitter limits scrolls while browsing the user timeline. This means that with .Profile or with .Favorites you will be able to get ~3200 tweets." There are no such limits if you distribute your requests using parallel-python-twitter.
Twitter will block your requests if you scrape enough (ex: https://github.com/twintproject/twint/issues/682). I've tested parallel-python-twitter up to 100s of megabytes.
Technically, twint violates Twitter's Terms of Service, since scraping is not permitted in general.