Tweepy: Twitter for Python!

Installation

The easiest way to install the latest version is by using pip/easy_install to pull it from PyPI:

pip install tweepy

You may also use Git to clone the repository from Github and install it manually, this repository is forked for the main tweepy, add a proxy_url.

git clone https://github.com/rdryan/tweepy.git
python setup.py install

Note only Python 2.6 and 2.7 are supported at the moment. The Python 3 family is not yet supported.

Documentation

• Website (Work in-progress)
• Twitter Developers
• Python Package Documentation

Community

• Google Group/Mailing list
• IRC Chat (Freenode.net #tweepy)

Usage

• Add proxy support. Read environment variable 'http_proxy' for proxy directly.

  for Windows: set http_proxy=http://your.proxy.host:port

  for Linux csh: setenv http_proxy http://your.proxy.host:port

  for Linx bash: export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.host:port"