# bear/python-twitter

A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.

Repository: https://github.com/bear/python-twitter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/python-twitter
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-08-07T23:14:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5103, "days_push": 756, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3404, forks 931 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:03.005330+00:00)

## What it is
A pure Python wrapper library around the Twitter API, making it easy for Python programmers to interact with Twitter's web services and data model. The repository has been archived by its maintainer and is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- post tweets from a python script
- read a user's twitter timeline in python
- authenticate with the twitter api using oauth
- search tweets programmatically
- integrate twitter into a django app
- fetch twitter user profile data

## When to choose
- you need a simple, well-documented python interface to the legacy Twitter API
- you're maintaining an older codebase that already uses python-twitter
- you only need read/write access to Twitter's v1.1 API endpoints

## When to avoid
- you need access to Twitter's current v2 API or X API features
- you're starting a new project and need an actively maintained library
- you need support for recent Twitter API changes or rate limit updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, sdk
- domain: social-media, apis, developer-tools
- platform: python
- tags: twitter-api, api-wrapper, archived, social-networks

## Member repositories
- bear/python-twitter (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.005330+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:38:37.110217+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bear/python-twitter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.005330+00:00, sha a259581ca265)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/python-twitter/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:32:45.781949+00:00, sha 683693f0f522)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.