nltk.twitter.Authenticate¶

class nltk.twitter.Authenticate[source]¶

Bases: object

Methods for authenticating with Twitter.

load_creds(creds_file=None, subdir=None, verbose=False)[source]¶

Read OAuth credentials from a text file.

File format for OAuth 1:

app_key=YOUR_APP_KEY
app_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
oauth_token=OAUTH_TOKEN
oauth_token_secret=OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET

File format for OAuth 2:

app_key=YOUR_APP_KEY
app_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Parameters: file_name (str) – File containing credentials. None (default) reads data from TWITTER/’credentials.txt’

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