In this article, we are going to extract the data using twitter API ( Application programming interface )

Twitter is one of the social networking website where users can post and interact with messages known as tweets. Twitter can help to mine the data from the user twitter account using the Twitter API or Tweepy.

What is Tweepy?

Python has packages that can interact with the Twitter account. One of the most useful Python Twitter packages is Tweepy, It can give access to the Twitter API. It can expose the tweets, retweets,

Likes, direct messages, and Followers. The data is extracted from the user tweet.

Getting started :

The first step is to get the consumer key, consumer secret, access secret from twitter developer made easily available for each user. This key is for authentication of API.

To get these keys first create the twitter account is you don’t have the Twitter account for getting the credentials we will need to access Twitter. To do that we will have to apply for the developer account.

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