Advanced Twitter Question(Programming Question)

[babadoctor]

I want to write or if there is already a program that gets the most recent reply from a user on twitter, makes the text backwards and then posts it as their own tweet

would this be extremly hard?

what languages should i know in order to accomplish this?

[Paytend01]

Why? lol

[babadoctor]

Why? lol

a project of mine

[babadoctor]

You can use a Twitter library for specific programming languages. For Python I use tweepy, you can take a look at the documentation at http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.4.0/

 

It is complicated at first, so if you want to go this route and program your own I suggest you start with the basics such as public search and user timeline scraping.

What prequesits should i know before attempting this?

im trying to learn java, but i suck at it...

i also tried to learn python but never finished it (this would be the time)

[babadoctor]

prerequisites...be at the intermediate level in a modern programming language.

If you are a beginner to programming then you really shouldn't be doing anything with the Twitter dev api. This stuff is complicated.

You can try, but from my experience it would help if you are already good at programming.

 

Also, don't learn Java. It isn't a beginners language. Learn Python first, it is simple, you will learn programming concepts which are applicable in many other languages. Once you have a good understanding of Python then you can learn Java. 

Okay!

I really really like to use the command line though

Unix, metasploit, whatever it is it is fun to me for some reason

 

i will start with python

anything after that  should try?

[babadoctor]

Focus on the fundamentals first, then work up to Classes and Modules.

Once you have those you should take a look at https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition

It has a companion book which will help you learn how to use social media APIs, but the book isn't *free*

thats why we have torrents