python-twitter-tools/twitter

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Python Twitter Tools (PTT) is a minimalist Python wrapper for the Twitter API, whose methods map directly to Twitter API URLs. It also ships with a command-line client for reading and posting tweets and an IRC bot that announces Twitter updates to IRC channels.

Use cases

• post tweets from the command line
• read my friends' timelines from a shell
• call the Twitter API from Python
• announce tweets to an IRC channel
• build a simple Twitter bot in Python

When to choose

• you want a tiny, minimalist Twitter API wrapper with methods bound directly to API endpoints
• you prefer managing Twitter from the terminal
• you need an IRC bot that relays Twitter updates

When to avoid

• you need full-featured Twitter/X API coverage including newer v2 endpoints
• you need OAuth-heavy or media-rich workflows out of the box
• you need a library under active feature development

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

http-client cli chatbot apis social-media developer-tools python cli cross-platform twitter-api twitter-client irc-bot social-media-api command-line

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