Sylvester

A high-volume Twitter API client library in Python for research purposes. When you have big jobs that can go wrong.

Why use Sylvester?

Here's the gist:

• Use multiple application credentials to set up a client pool with multiple API endpoints, as many as you'd like.
• Makes use of generators to walk through big cursored lists, such as a users timeline.

Example usage

Timeline requests are limited to 200 tweets per request, get a set of tweets until the timeline is exhausted.

import sylvester
import json

pool = sylvester.create_client_pool_from_json()
screen_name = "Twitter"
for tweets in pool.get_timeline(screen_name):
	with open('tweets.json', 'a') as outfile:
		json.dump(tweets, outfile)

keys.json

Example keys.json file

{
	"keys":
	[
	    {
	        "client_key": 				"aaa",
	        "client_secret": 			"bbb",

	        "resource_owner_key":       "ccc",
	        "resource_owner_secret":    "ddd"
	    },
	    {
	        "client_key":               "eee",
	        "client_secret":            "fff",

	        "resource_owner_key":       "ggg",
	        "resource_owner_secret":    "hhh"
	    }
	]

}