Very new to the twitter api. I want to make an app that, when a certain account get a new DM, will tweet the DM, then delete it. I know how to code in python, but am having trouble with learning the API and would love some help. So far this is my code
from twitter import *
what should our new status be?
status_update = “Testing”
these tokens are necessary for user authentication
(created within the twitter developer API pages)
consumer_key = x
consumer_secret = x
access_key = x
access_secret = x
create twitter API object
auth = OAuth(access_key, access_secret, consumer_key, consumer_secret)
twitter = Twitter(auth = auth)
post a new status
results = twitter.statuses.update(status = status_update)
twitter.direct_messages.new(
user=“MY_USERNAME",
text=status_update)
print "Status updated.”
And it all works and complies correctly, and will in fact tweet to my account and send myself the message as a DM. That’s all i have so far… So i have the posting down, i just don’t know how to access read and delete DM’s… Any help is much appreciated as i am a new developer…
