ex1_check.py

# Copyright 2014, Radhika S. Saksena (radhika dot saksena at gmail dot com)
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

import tweepy

"""Test for authentication to Twitter and accessing the REST API.
    This code obtains the follower count, description and public
    tweets of the Twitter user RichardDawkins."""

# assign values from your Twitter developer account
ckey = ' ' #consumer key
csecret = ' ' #conumer scret
atoken = ' ' # access token
asecret = ' ' #access secret

# instantiate OAuthHandler and initialize it with your credentials
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(ckey,csecret)
auth.set_access_token(atoken,asecret)

# instantiate the tweepy object, invoke the constructor with the just-created
# OAuthHandler object
api = tweepy.API(auth)

tweeter=api.get_user("RichardDawkins")

print "\nTweeter follower count: " + str(tweeter.followers_count)
print "Tweeter description: " + tweeter.description
print "\nHere come the tweets..."

tweets = api.user_timeline(id=tweeter.id,count=10)
for tweet in tweets:
    print "Tweet: " + tweet.text