To be able to do this we will use the TwitterAPI library. It has integrated the command prompt, and you can easy access it by clicking on the menu item: View -> Integrated terminal. You could also run these lines within VSCode.
To install the Twitter library, open the command prompt and run each of the next install commands. Then use the option File -> Open Folder in VSCode.
HOW TO INSTALL PYTHON IN VISUAL STUDIO ARCHIVE
Once you first open the VS Code, open the Extensions list and install Python extension.ĭownload from GitHub the code ( click to download) and extract the archive to a local folder. Our example will work with minor changes also for Python 2. After your application is created, you will need to get your API keys (or generate some) and also generate access tokens.ĭownload and install first Python 3 and then Visual Studio Code. Once you have an account, you’ll have to go to their developer’s site, in the Application Management area and create a new application. Getting startedĪt first, you will need to create a Twitter account and then a Twitter application.
Using an excellent Python library – TwitterAPI as a minimal wrapper to native Twitter API calls, we can have a tool to extract the information we need. The list of different ways to use Twitter could be really long, and with 500 millions of tweets per day, there’s a lot of data to play with. Users share thoughts, links and pictures on Twitter, journalists comment on live events. Twitter is a popular social network where users can share short SMS-like messages called tweets. Combining with Python, and its associated 3rd party packages that wrap Twitter’s API, we can easy connect to Twitter, read and use the data in just few lines of code. Visual Studio Code is a cross platform editor that supports multiple programming languages.
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