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In the field "In your words" put something like the following: | In the field "In your words" put something like the following: | ||
I am taking an Introduction to Programming and Data Science course at Purdue university. My instructor is Jeremy Foote (jdfoote@purdue.edu). You can find details about the course at https://wiki.communitydata.science/Intro_to_Programming_and_Data_Science_(Summer_2021). | I am taking an Introduction to Programming and Data Science course at Purdue university. My instructor is Jeremy Foote (jdfoote@purdue.edu). You can find details about the course at https://wiki.communitydata.science/Intro_to_Programming_and_Data_Science_(Summer_2021). | ||
Under "The Specifics" check yes for "Are you planning to analyze Twitter data" and enter the following text: | Under "The Specifics" check yes for "Are you planning to analyze Twitter data" and enter the following text: | ||
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== Confirm your developer email address == | == Confirm your developer email address == | ||
''' | '''10''' When you confirm in the email, you will arrive at https://developer.twitter.com/en/account/get-started. On that page, click "Create an app". This will take you to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps | ||
''' | '''11''' Click "Create an app", which takes you to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps/create. You'll need to fill in a few details about your app. | ||
App name: "COM 674 Sample <Your_First_and_Last_Name>" | App name: "COM 674 Sample <Your_First_and_Last_Name>" | ||
Application Description: "Sample application for COM 674." | |||
Website: "https://www.example.com" | |||
Callback URLs: "https://www.example.com" | |||
Leave "Enable Sign in with Twitter" unchecked. | |||
The next few fields are not needed, but scroll to the bottom to find "Tell us how this app will be used". | |||
Tell us how this app will be used: "Learning data science with python in COM 674 at Purdue University. This app is for testing purposes only." | |||
Finally, click create, and click create again in the modal window. | |||
*Almost there!!* | |||
== Generate and copy your individual, private, unique Twitter developer credentials == | == Generate and copy your individual, private, unique Twitter developer credentials == | ||
'''12''' In the next step, you will access Twitter credentials, which will let you authenticate with Twitter in python. | |||
''' | |||
You need unique, private credentials to collect tweets. You will be pasting these credentials into your Python code. Be sure if you share your Python code, you ***do not** share your unique developer credentials. | You need unique, private credentials to collect tweets. You will be pasting these credentials into your Python code. Be sure if you share your Python code, you ***do not** share your unique developer credentials. | ||
Click the "Keys and Tokens" tab. You will see a box called "Consumer API keys" with two long strings labeled "API key" and "API secret key". You should copy and paste those into a text file on your desktop. | |||
Finally, click "Generate" which will open a modal with two new strings called "Access Token" and "Access Token Secret". Copy these two keys to the same file and close the modal. | |||
You will need all four of these strings in order to have your Twitter application work. | You will need all four of these strings in order to have your Twitter application work. | ||
'''Keep this material secret.''' Your access token and access token secret will allow anybody who has it to post to Twitter as you and to control your account. It is equivalent to your Twitter username and password so please be as careful with it as you would be with your Twitter password! | '''Keep this material secret.''' Your access token and access token secret will allow anybody who has it to post to Twitter as you and to control your account. It is equivalent to your Twitter username and password so please be as careful with it as you would be with your Twitter password! | ||
== Other documentation == | == Other documentation == | ||
Explore how Tweets are structured | Explore how Tweets are structured | ||
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This page has some helpful intel about modifying Standard Search parameters (including sample request and response): | This page has some helpful intel about modifying Standard Search parameters (including sample request and response): | ||
* [https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs | * [https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets Getting search tweets.] | ||
Using the Twitter Realtime API : | Using the Twitter Realtime API : |