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#importing all dependencies
import numpy as np
import tweepy
import requests
import base64
import ssl

ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

#Test Bot Auth Keys
consumer_key = ‘’ # api key
consumer_secret = ‘’ # api passw
key = ‘’ # consumer key
secret = ‘’ # consumer password

Authentication with Twitter

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(key, secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

img = “home/yo/image.jpeg”
api.update_with_media(img, status=“yo”)

So I have figured out how to post images to Twitter through a local file path, but ideally I would like to be able to post the image through a web link such as a “web url” (I can’t post a web link). Is there a way to direct the file path to a url like this and have the twitter post the image in my tweet? I noticed if I just post the url it doesn’t convert it to an image, it just tweets the web link. If I can’t do this, how can I access a photo from something like Google cloud in my img file path remotely?

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No, you will have to download the image file yourself and upload the bytes - the API doesn’t accept anything else.

#3

If I have the images on google drive, can I use the image fro there?

#4

No, not unless you read the files themselves somehow and send the bytes to the API, not any urls.

#5

What would be the best approach to randomly grabbing from a group of these images in the drive?

#6

This is probably a better question for stackoverflow.com and the Google Drive API: How to randomly download many files from a google drive folder - Stack Overflow