2016-05-25

Going forward all changes will be tracked in docs/changelog.rst

2015-12-28

Large number of changes related to making the code Python v3 compatible.

See the messy details at https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/pull/251

Pull Requests

#525 Adds support for 280 character limit for tweets by trevorprater

#267 initialize Api.__auth fixes #119 by rbpasker

#266 Add full_text and page options in GetDirectMessages function by mistersalmon

#264 Updates Media object with new methods, adds id param, adds tests by jeremylow

#262 Update get_access_token.py by lababidi

#261 Adding Collections by ryankicks

#260 Added UpdateBackgroundImage method and added profile_link_color argument to UpdateProfile by BrandonBielicki

#259 Added GetFriendIDsPaged by RockHoward

#254 Adding api methods for suggestions and suggestions/:slug by trentstollery

#253 Added who parameter to api.GetSearch by wilsonand1

#250 adds UpdateFriendship (shared Add/Edit friendship) by jheld

#249 Fixed Non-ASCII printable representation in Trend by der-Daniel

#246 Add __repr__ for status by era

#245 Python-3 Fix: decode bytestreams for json load by ligthyear

#243 Remove references to outdated API functionality: GetUserByEmail by Vector919

#239 Correct GetListsList docstring by tedmiston

Probably a whole lot that I missed - ugh!

2017-11-11

Added support for 280 character limit

2015-10-05

Added who to api.GetSearch

2014-12-29

removed reference to simplejson

2014-12-24

bump version to v2.3

bump version to v2.2

PEP8 standardization

2014-07-10

bump version to v2.1

2014-07-10

update copyright years

change setup.py to allow installing via wheel

renamed README.md to README.rst

added AUTHORS.rst

2014-02-17

changed version to 1.3 and then to 1.3.1 because I forgot to include CHANGES

fix Issue 143 - GetStatusOembed() url parameter was being stomped on

fix debugHTTP in a brute force way but it works again

Add id_str to Status class

Added LookupFriendship() method for checking follow status

pull request from lucas

Fix bug of GetListMembers when specifying `owner_screen_name`

pull request from shichao-an

2014-01-18

backfilling varioius lists endpoints

added a basic user stream call

2014-01-17

changed to version 1.2

fixed python 3 issue in setup.py (print statements)

fixed error in CreateList(), changed count default for GetFollowers to 200 and added a GetFollowersPaged() method

need to backfill commit log entries!

2013-10-06

changed version to 1.1

The following changes have been made since the 1.0.1 release

Remove from ParseTweet the Python 2.7 only dict comprehension item

Fix GetListTimeline condition to enable owner_screen_name based fetching

Many fixes for readability and PEP8

Cleaning up some of the package importing. Only importing the functions that are needed

Also added first build of the sphinx documentation. Copied some info from the readme to the index page

Added lines to setup.py to help the user troubleshoot install problems. #109

Removed the OAuth2 lines from the readme

Removed OAuth2 library requirements

Added GetListMembers()

2013-06-07

changed version to 1.0.1

added README bit about Python version requirement

2013-06-04

changed version to 1.0

removed doc directory until we can update docs for v1.1 API

added to package MANIFEST.in the testdata directory

2013-05-28

bumped version to 1.0rc1

merged in api_v1.1 branch

The library is now only for Twitter API v1.1

2013-03-03

bumped version to 0.8.7

removed GetPublicTimeline from the docs so as to stop confusing

new folks since it was the first example given ... d'oh!

2013-02-10

bumped version to 0.8.6

update requirements.txt to remove distribute reference

github commit 3b9214a879e5fbd03036a7d4ae86babc03784846

Merge pull request #33 from iElectric/profile_image_url_https

github commit 67cbb8390701c945a48094795474ca485f092049

patch by iElectric on github

Change User.NewFromJsonDict so that it will pull from either

profile_image_url_https or profile_image_url to keep older code

working properly if they have stored older json data

2013-02-07

bumped version to 0.8.5

lots of changes have been happening on Github and i've been

very remiss in documenting them here in the Changes file :(

this version is the last v1.0 API release and it's being made

to push to PyPI and other places

all work now will be on getting the v1.1 API supported

2012-11-04

https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/issues/4

Api.UserLookUp() throws attribute error when corresponding screen_name is not found

https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/pull/5

Merge pull request #5 from thefinn93/master

Setup.py crashes because the README file is now named README.md

Update .gitignore to add the PyCharm data directory

2012-10-16

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=233

Patch by dan@dans.im

Add exclude_replies parameter to GetUserTimeline

https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/issues/1

Bug reported by michaelmior on github

get_access_token.py attempts Web auth

2011-12-03

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/detail?r=263fe2a0db8be23347e92b81d6ab3c33b4ef292f

Comment by qfuxiang to the above changeset

The base url was wrong for the Followers API calls

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=213

Add include_entities parameter to GetStatus()

Patch by gaelenh

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=214

Change PostUpdate() so that it takes the shortened link into

account. Small tweak to the patch provided to make the

shortened-link length set by a API value instead of a constant.

Patch by ceesjan.ytec

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=216

AttributeError handles the fact that win* doesn't implement

os.getlogin()

Patch by yaleman

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=217

As described at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/trends,

GET trends (corresponding to Api.GetTrendsCurrent) is now

deprecated in favor of GET trends/:woeid. GET trends also now

requires authentication, while trends/:woeid doesn't.

Patch and excellent description by jessica.mckellar

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=218

Currently, two Trends containing the same information

(name, query, and timestamp) aren't considered equal because

__eq__ isn't overridden, like it is for Status, User, and the

other Twitter objects.

Patch and excellent description by jessica.mckellar

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=220

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=211

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=206

All variations on a theme - basically Twitter is returning

something different for an error payload. Changed code to

check for both 'error' and 'errors'.

2011-05-08

https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=184

A comment in this issue made me realize that the parameter sanity

check for max_id was missing in GetMentions() - added

First pass at working in some of the cursor support that has been

in the Twitter API but we haven't made full use of - still working

out the small issues.

2011-04-16

bumped version to 0.8.3

released 0.8.2 to PyPI

bumped version to 0.8.2

Issue 193

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=193

Missing retweet_count field on Status object

Patch (with minor tweaks) by from alissonp

Issue 181

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=181

Add oauth2 to install_requires parameter list and also updated

README to note that the oauth2 lib can be found in two locations

Issue 182, Issue 137, Issue 93, Issue 190

language value missing from User object

Added 'lang' item and also some others that were needed:

verified, notifications, contributors_enabled and listed_count

patches by wreinerat, apetresc, jpwigan and ghills

2011-02-26

Issue 166

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=166

Added a basic, but sadly needed, check when parsing the json

returned by Twitter as Twitter has a habit of returning the

failwhale HTML page for a json api call :(

Patch (with minor tweaks) by adam.aviv

Issue 187

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=187

Applied patch by edward.hades to fix issue where MaximumHitFrequency

returns 0 when requests are maxed out

Issue 184

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=184

Applied patch by jmstaley to put into the GetUserTimeline API

parameter list the max_id value (it was being completely ignored)

2011-02-20

Added retweeted to Status class

Fixed Status class to return Hashtags list in AsDict() call

Issue 185

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=185

Added retweeted_status to Status class - patch by edward.hades

Issue 183

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=183

Removed errant print statement - reported by ProgVal

2010-12-21

Setting version to 0.8.1

Issue 179

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=179

Added MANIFEST.in to give setup.py sdist some clues as to what

files to include in the tarball

2010-11-14

Setting version to 0.8 for a bit as having a branch for this is

really overkill, i'll just take DeWitt advice and tag it when

the release is out the door

Issue 175

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=175

Added geo_enabled to User class - basic parts of patch provided

by adam.aviv with other bits added by me to allow it to pass tests

Issue 174

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=174

Added parts of adam.aviv's patch - the bits that add new field items

to the Status class.

Issue 159

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=159

Added patch form adam.aviv to make the term parameter for GetSearch()

optional if geocode parameter is supplied

2010-11-03

Ran pydoc to generate docs

2010-10-16

Fixed bad date in previous CHANGES entry

Fixed source of the python-oauth2 library we use: from brosner

to simplegeo

I made a pass thru the docstrings and updated many to be the

text from the current Twitter API docs. Also fixed numerous

whitespace issues and did a s/[optional]/[Optional]/ change.

Imported work by Colin Howe that he did to get the tests working.

http://code.google.com/r/colinthehowe-python-twitter-tests/source/detail?r=6cff589aca9c955df8354fe4d8e302ec4a2eb31c

http://code.google.com/r/colinthehowe-python-twitter-tests/source/detail?r=cab8e32d7a9c34c66d2e75eebc7a1ba6e1eac8ce

http://code.google.com/r/colinthehowe-python-twitter-tests/source/detail?r=b434d9e5dd7b989ae24483477e3f00b1ad362cc5

Issue 169

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=169

Patch by yaemog which adds missing Trends support.

Issue 168

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=168

Only cache successful results as suggested by yaemog.

Issue 111

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=111

Added a new GetUserRetweets() call as suggested by yash888

Patch given was adjusted to reflect the current code requirements.

Issue 110

Added a VerifyCredentials() sample call to the README example

Issue 105

Added support for the page parameter to GetFriendsTimeline()

as requested by jauderho.

I also updated GetFriendsTimeline() to follow the current

Twitter API documentation

Somewhere in the patch frenzy of today an extra GetStatus()

def was introduced!?! Luckily it was caught by the tests.

wooo tests! \m/

Setting version to 0.8

r0.8 branch created and trunk set to version 0.9-devel

2010-09-26

Issue 150

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=150

Patch by blhobbes which removes a double quoting issue that

was happening for GetSearch()

Reported by huubhuubbarbatruuk

Issue 160

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=160

Patch by yaemog which adds support for include_rts and

include_entities support to GetUserTimeline and GetPublicTimeline

Small tweaks post-patch

Applied docstring tweak suggested by dclinton in revision comment

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/detail?r=a858412e38f7e3856fef924291ef039284d3a6e1

Thanks for the catch!

Issue 164

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=164

Patch by yaemog which adds GetRetweets support.

Small tweaks and two typo fixes post-patch.

Issue 165

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=165

Patch by yaemog which adds GetStatus support.

Small tweaks post-patch

Issue 163

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=163

Patch by yaemog which adds users/lookup support.

Small tweaks to docstring only post-patch.

Changed username/password parameter to Api class to be

consumer_key/consumer_secret to better match the new

oAuth only world that Twitter has demanded.

Added debugHTTP to the parameter list to Api class to

control if/when the urllib debug output is displayed.

2010-08-25

First pass at adding list support.

Added a new List class and also added to the Api class

new methods for working with lists:

CreateList(self, user, name, mode=None, description=None)

DestroyList(self, user, id)

CreateSubscription(self, owner, list)

DestroySubscription(self, owner, list)

GetSubscriptions(self, user, cursor=-1)

GetLists(self, user, cursor=-1)

2010-08-24

Fixed introduced bug in the Destroy* and Create* API calls

where any of the routines were passing in an empty dict for

POST data. Before the oAuth change that was enough to tell

_FetchUrl() to use POST instead of GET but now a non-empty

dict is required.

Issue 144

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=144

GetFriends() where it was failing with a 'unicode object has

no attribute get'. This was caused when Twitter changed how

they return the JSON data. It used to be a straight list but

now there are some elements *and* then the list.

2010-08-18

Applied the json/simplejson part of the patch found

in Issue 64 (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=64)

Patch provided by Thomas Bohmbach

Applied patch provided by liris.pp in Issue 147

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=147

Ensures that during a PostStatus we count the length using a unicode aware

len() routine. Tweaked patch slightly to take into account that the

twitter.Api() instance may have been setup with None for input_encoding.

2010-08-17

Fixed error in the POST path for _FetchUrl() where by

I show to the world that yes, I do make last minute

changes and completely forget to test them :(

Thanks to Peter Sanchez for finding and pointing to

working code that showed the fix

2010-08-15

Added more help text (I hope it helps) to the README

and also to get_access_token.py.

Added doctext notes to twitter.Api() parameter list

to explain more about oAuth.

Added import exception handling for parse_qs() and

parse_qsl() as it seems those funcitons moved between

2.5 and 2.6 so the oAuth update broke the lib under

python2.5. Thanks to Rich for the bug find (sorry

it had to be found the hard way!)

from changeset 184:60315000989c by DeWitt

Update the generated twitter.py docs to match the trunk

2010-08-14

Fixed silly typo in _FetchUrl() when doing a POST

Thanks to Peter Sanchez for the find and fix!

Added some really basic text to the get_access_token.py

startup output that explains why, for now, you need to

visit Twitter and get an Application key/secret to use

this library

2010-08-12

Updated code to use python-oauth2 library for authentication.

Twitter has set a deadline, 2010-08-16 as of this change, for

the switch from Basic to oAuth.

The oAuth integration was inspired by the work done by

Hameedullah Khan and others.

The change to using python-oauth2 library was done purely to

align python-twitter with an oauth library that was maintained

and had tests to try and minimize grief moving forward.

Slipped into GetFriendsTimeline() a new parameter, retweets, to

allow the call to pull from the "friends_timeline" or the

"home_timeline".

Fixed some typos and white-space issues and also updated the

README to point to the new Twitter Dev site.

2010-08-02

Updated copyright information.

2010-06-13

Applied changeset from nicdumz repo nicdumz-cleaner-python-twitter

r=07df3feee06c8d0f9961596e5fceae9e74493d25

datetime is required for MaximumHitFrequency

Applied changeset from nicdumz repo nicdumz-cleaner-python-twitter

r=dd669dff32d101856ed6e50fe8bd938640b04d77

update source URLs in README

Applied changeset from nicdumz repo nicdumz-cleaner-python-twitter

r=8f0796d7fdcea17f4162aeb22d3c36cb603088c7

adjust tests to reflect http://twitter.com -> https://twitter.com change

Applied changeset from nicdumz repo nicdumz-cleaner-python-twitter

r=3c05b8ebe59eca226d9eaef2760cecca9d50944a

tests: add .info() method to objects returned by our Mockup handler

This is required to completely mimick urllib, and have successful

response.headers attribute accesses.

Applied partial patch for Issue 113

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=113

The partial bit means we changed the parameter from "page" to "cursor"

so the call would work. What was left out was a more direct way

to return the cursor value *after* the call and also in the patch

they also changed the method to return an iterator.

2010-05-17

Issue 50 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=50

Applied patch by wheaties.box that implements a new method to return

the Rate Limit Status and also adds the new method MaximumHitFrequency

Multiple typo, indent and whitespace tweaks

Issue 60 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=60

Pulled out new GetFavorites and GetMentions methods from the patch

submitted by joegermuska

Issue 62 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=62

Applied patch from lukev123 that adds gzip compression to the GET

requests sent to Twitter. The patch was modified to default gzip to

False and to allow the twitter.API class instantiation to set the

value to True. This was done to not change current default

behaviour radically.

Issue 80 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=80

Fixed PostUpdate() call example in the README

2010-05-16

Issue 19 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=19

TinyURL example and the idea for this comes from a bug filed by

acolorado with patch provided by ghills.

Issue 37 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=37

Added base_url to the twitter.API class init call to allow the user

to override the default https://twitter.com base. Since Twitter now

supports https for all calls I (bear) changed the patch to default to

https instead of http.

Original issue by kotecha.ravi, patch by wiennat and with implementation

tweaks by bear.

Issue 45 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=45

Two grammar fixes for relative_created_at property

Patches by thomasdyson and chris.boardman07

2010-01-24

Applying patch submitted to fix Issue 70

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=70

The patch was originally submitted by user ghills, adapted by livibetter and

adapted even further by JimMoefoe (read the comments for the full details :) )

Applying patch submitted by markus.magnuson to add new method GetFriendIDs

Issue 94 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=94

2009-06-13

Releasing 0.6 to help people avoid the Twitpocalypse.

2009-05-03

Support hashlib in addition to the older md5 library.

2009-03-11

Added page parameter to GetReplies, GetFriends, GetFollowers, and GetDirectMessages

2009-03-03

Added count parameter to GetFriendsTimeline

2009-03-01

Add PostUpdates, which automatically splits long text into multiple updates.

2009-02-25

Add in_reply_to_status_id to api.PostUpdate

2009-02-21

Wrap any error responses in a TwitterError

Add since_id to GetFriendsTimeline and GetUserTimeline

2009-02-20

Added since and since_id to Api.GetReplies

2008-07-10

Added new properties to User and Status classes.

Removed spurious self-import of the twitter module

Added a NOTICE file

Require simplejson 2.x or later

Added get/create/destroy favorite flags for status messages.

Bug fix for non-tty devices.

2007-09-13

Unset the executable bit on README.

2007-09-13

Released version 0.5.

Added back support for setuptools (conditionally)

Added support for X-Twitter-* HTTP headers

Fixed the tests to work across all timezones

Removed the 140 character limit from PostUpdate

Added support for per-user tmp cache directories

2007-06-13

Released 0.4.

Fixed a unicode error that prevented tweet.py from working.

Added DestroyStatus

Added DestroyDirectMessage

Added CreateFriendship

Added DestoryFriendship

2007-06-03

Fixed the bug that prevented unicode strings being posted

Username and password now set on twitter.Api, not individual method calls

Added SetCredentials and ClearCredentials

Added GetUser ("users/show" in the twitter web api)

Added GetFeatured

Added GetDirectMessages

Added GetStatus ("statuses/show" in the twitter web api)

Added GetReplies

Added optional since_id parameter on GetPublicTimeline

Added optional since parameter on GetUserTimeline

Added optional since and user parameters on GetFriendsTimeline

Added optional user parameter on GetFriends

2007-04-27

Modified examples/twitter-to-xhtml.py to handle unicode

Dropped dependency on setuptools (too complicated/buggy)

Added unicode test cases

Fixed issue 2 "Rename needs an unlink in front"

2007-04-02

Released 0.3.

Use gmtime not localtime to calculate relative_created_at.

2007-03-26

Released 0.2

GetUserTimeline can accept userid or username.

2007-03-21

Calculate relative_created_at on the fly

2007-01-28

Released 0.1

Initial checkin of python-twitter