Tweepy

Tweepy covers the entire API features and comes very well documented to help developers get started in creating their Twitter-friendly applications.

The library works just like any API handler, being a simple abstraction layer between the API requests and the server responses, translating Python code to server commands and converting the results into a Python-friendly format.

This allows developers to write Python code that interacts directly to the API without having to manipulate raw HTTP requests in the code.

What is new in this release:

• Allow specifying your own SSL certificates for streaming client.
• Distribute Python Wheels instead of dumb binaries.
• Fix cursor invocation, passing args to underlying method.
• Upgrade to Request 2.4.3.

What is new in version 2.2:

• Don't treat HTTP status codes in 200 range as errors.
• Tests no longer packaged into egg releases.
• Improve test stability and enable CI testing on pull requests.
• Removed Basic Auth.
• Use built-in timeout feature of httplib to fix appengine.
• Added retweeters() endpoint.
• Removed deprecated retweeted_by and retweeted_by_ids.
• Improved datetime parsing. Should be more thread safe.
• Enable coverage reporting. Upload reports to Coveralls.

What is new in version 2.1:

• friends() and followers() are back and updated to v1.1.
• Fixed report_spam() endpoint.
• Added "languages" parameter to streaming filter() method.
• Added "timeout" support for API object. Ex: API(timeout=1000).
• Python 2.5 no longer supported.
• Added compression support. Ex: API(compression=True).
• Added on_connect() callback to StreamListener.

Limitations:

• Python 3.x not supported.