DirectMessage
The DirectMessage
object in Tweepy module contains the information about a place.
Here are the list of attributes in the DirectMessage object :
- type : The type of the direct message.
- id : The ID of the direct message.
- created_timestamp : The timestamp when the direct message was created.
- message_create : The details of the contents of the direct message like sender’s ID, text, media etc.
Example : Use get_direct_message()
method to fetch the direct message.
# import the module import tweepy # assign the values accordingly consumer_key = "" consumer_secret = "" access_token = "" access_token_secret = "" # authorization of consumer key and consumer secret auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) # set access to user's access key and access secret auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) # calling the api api = tweepy.API(auth) # ID of the direct message id = 1271013844639313927 # fetching the direct message direct_message = api.get_direct_message( id ) # printing the information print ( "The type is : " + direct_message. type ) print ( "The id is : " + direct_message. id ) print ( "The created_timestamp is : " + direct_message.created_timestamp) # inside message_create print ( "The recipient_id is : " + direct_message.message_create[ 'target' ][ 'recipient_id' ]) print ( "The sender_id is : " + direct_message.message_create[ 'sender_id' ]) print ( "The source_app_id is : " + direct_message.message_create[ 'source_app_id' ]) print ( "The text is : " + str (direct_message.message_create[ 'message_data' ][ 'text' ])) print ( "The entities are : " + str (direct_message.message_create[ 'message_data' ][ 'entities' ])) print ( "The media attachment is : " + str (direct_message.message_create[ 'message_data' ][ 'attachment' ])) |
Output :
The type is : message_create
The id is : 1271013844639313927
The created_timestamp is : 1591868289514
The recipient_id is : 2344960135
The sender_id is : 4801790172
The source_app_id is : 3033300
The text is : https://t.co/wn8dK13pzf
The entities are : {‘hashtags’: [], ‘symbols’: [], ‘user_mentions’: [], ‘urls’: [{‘url’: ‘https://t.co/wn8dK13pzf’, ‘expanded_url’: ‘https://twitter.com/messages/media/1271013844639313927’, ‘display_url’: ‘pic.twitter.com/wn8dK13pzf’, ‘indices’: [1, 24]}]}
The media attachment is : {‘type’: ‘media’, ‘media’: {‘id’: 1271013835181154304, ‘id_str’: ‘1271013835181154304’, ‘indices’: [1, 24], ‘media_url’: ‘https://ton.twitter.com/1.1/ton/data/dm/1271013844639313927/1271013835181154304/gIf1lwJ9.png’, ‘media_url_https’: ‘https://ton.twitter.com/1.1/ton/data/dm/1271013844639313927/1271013835181154304/gIf1lwJ9.png’, ‘url’: ‘https://t.co/wn8dK13pzf’, ‘display_url’: ‘pic.twitter.com/wn8dK13pzf’, ‘expanded_url’: ‘https://twitter.com/messages/media/1271013844639313927’, ‘type’: ‘photo’, ‘sizes’: {‘small’: {‘w’: 225, ‘h’: 225, ‘resize’: ‘fit’}, ‘medium’: {‘w’: 225, ‘h’: 225, ‘resize’: ‘fit’}, ‘thumb’: {‘w’: 150, ‘h’: 150, ‘resize’: ‘crop’}, ‘large’: {‘w’: 225, ‘h’: 225, ‘resize’: ‘fit’}}}}
Python – DirectMessage object in Tweepy
Twitter is a popular social network where users share messages called tweets. Twitter allows us to mine the data of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy. The data will be tweets extracted from the user. The first thing to do is get the consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access secret from twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.