Parsing Twitter JSON object in Python

Question

I am trying to download tweets from twitter.

I have used python and Tweepy for this. Though I am new to both Python and Twitter API.

My Python script is as f

Answer 1

Instead of using global variables, I would reorganize the code in a python class:

import tweepy

class TweetPrinter():
    """
        Simple class to print tweets
    """
    def __init__(self, consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, 
                 access_token_secret):
        self.consumer_key = consumer_key
        self.consumer_secret = consumer_secret
        self.access_token = access_token
        self.access_token_secret = access_token_secret
        self.auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(self.consumer_key, 
                                        self.consumer_secret)
        self.auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

    def tweet_print(self):
        api = tweepy.API(self.auth)
        football_tweets = api.search(q="football")
        for tweet in football_tweets:
            print(tweet.text)


def main():
    tweet_printer = TweetPrinter(my_consumer_key, my_consumer_secret, 
                              my_access_token, my_access_token_secret)

    tweet_printer.tweet_print()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()