Python – API.update_profile() 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.

API.update_profile()

The update_profile() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to update the profile of the authenticated user.

Syntax : API.update_profile(filename)

Parameter :

• name : name of the profile, maximum 20 characters.
• url : link of the url, maximum 100 characters.
• location : location of the user, maximum 30 characters.
• description : profile description, maximum 10 characters.

Returns : an object of class User

Example 1 : Update the name of the profile.

# 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)

# the profile name to be updated
name = "Geeky Yash"

# updating the background picture
api.update_profile(name)

Output :

Example 2 : Updating the location of the profile.

# the location to be updated
location = "India"

# updating the background picture
api.update_profile(location = location)

Output :