Python – API.create_favorite() in Tweepy
Last Updated :
08 Jun, 2020
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.
API.create_favorite()
The create_favorite()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to like a status as the authenticated user.
Syntax : API.create_favorite(id)
Parameters :
- id : specifies the ID of the status.
Returns : an object of class Status
Example 1 : Consider the following status :
import tweepy
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
id = 1268080321590935553
api.create_favorite( id )
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Output :
Example 2 : Checking if the status has been liked or not by the create_favorite()
method.
id = 1267740427676942337
print ( "Before using the create_favorite() method : " )
if api.get_status( id ).favorited = = True :
print ( "The status has been liked by the authenticated user." )
else :
print ( "The status has not been liked by the authenticated user." )
api.create_favorite( id )
print ( "\nAfter using the create_favorite() method : " )
if api.get_status( id ).favorited = = True :
print ( "The status has been liked by the authenticated user." )
else :
print ( "The status has not been liked by the authenticated user." )
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Output :
Before using the create_favorite() method :
The status has not been liked by the authenticated user.
After using the create_favorite() method :
The status has been liked by the authenticated user.
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