django-tweets

Create and delete tweets in a Django project.

This packages takes the advantage of the tweepy functionalities to connect it to a Django Backend.

The tweets objects can have media files as well.

Set up

Twitter Account

1. Make sure you have a Twitter account.
2. Go to the Twitter Developer Portal.
3. Create a Project and an App
4. Make sure your App has read and write permissions.
5. Genenerate the necessary secrets and token.

django-tweets

1. Install from PyPI

python -m pip install django-tweets

2. Add the package to your settins INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "django_tweets",
    ...
]

3. Add the following settings to your Django project.

Example:

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

...

############################## django-tweets ##############################
# username
TWITTER_USERNAME = "django_tweets" # https://twitter.com/django_tweets
# Consumer Keys
TWITTER_API_KEY = os.environ.get("TWITTER_API_KEY")
TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET = os.environ.get("TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET")
# Authentication Tokens
TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN = os.environ.get("TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN")
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ.get("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN")
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = os.environ.get("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET")
# OAuth 2.0 Client ID and Client Secret
TWITTER_CLIENT_ID = os.environ.get("TWITTER_CLIENT_ID")
TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET = os.environ.get("TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET")

4. Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

Usage

Create a simple tweet

from django_tweets.models import Tweet

# create a tweet in the db
tweet = Tweet.objects.create(text="Hi, this is my tweet using django-tweets and tweepy")

# publish it
tweet.publish()

Create a tweet with a media file

from pathlib import Path
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
from django_tweets.models import Tweet, TweetFile

# create a media file
path = Path("path/to/my/file.jpg")

with open(path, "rb") as f:
    f.seek(0)
    contents = f.read()

tweet_file = TweetFile.objects.create(title="nice photo")
tweet_file.file.save(path.name, ContentFile(contents))
# upload to Twitter
tweet_file = tweet_file.upload()

# create a tweet in the db
tweet = Tweet.objects.create(text="My tweet with a file")

# add the media file to the tweet object
tweet.files.add(tweet_file)

# publish it
tweet.publish()

Usage in the admin

• Use http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/django_tweets/tweet/ to create a Tweet object
• Use http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/django_tweets/tweetpublication/ to link a Tweet object to publish it.

Similarly works with the TweetFile and TweetFileUpload models.

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