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Python – API.destroy_favorite() in Tweepy

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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.destroy_favorite()

The destroy_favorite() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to un-like a status as the authenticated user.

Syntax : API.destroy_favorite(id)

Parameters :

  • id : specifies the ID of the status.

Returns : an object of class Status

Example 1 : Consider the following status :




# 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 status
id = 1268080321590935553
  
# un-liking the status
api.destroy_favorite(id)


Output :

Example 2 : Checking if the status has been un-liked or not by the destroy_favorite() method.




# ID of the status
id = 1267740427676942337
  
print("Before using the destroy_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.")
  
# un-liking the status
api.destroy_favorite(id)
  
print("\nAfter using the destroy_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.")


Output :

Before using the destroy_favorite() method : 
The status has been liked by the authenticated user.

After using the destroy_favorite() method : 
The status has not been liked by the authenticated user.


Last Updated : 08 Jun, 2020
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