How to update twitter status with image using image url in tweepy?

Question

This is the code I've used,

#Twitter credentials access_token = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'access_token') access_token_secret = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'access_token_secret') consumer_key = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'consumer_key') consumer_secret = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'consumer_secret')  auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) api = API(auth)  img = "http://animalia-life.com/data_images/bird/bird1.jpg" api.update_with_media(img, status="Nice one") 

This is the error I'm getting

No such file or directory 

I know that I have to use a file from the local directory with the above command. Is there a way to use a URL while using update_with_media ?

Answer 1

You need use a local file to upload via tweepy. I would suggest using a library like requests to download the file first.

import requests import os   def twitter_api():     access_token = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'access_token')     access_token_secret = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'access_token_secret')     consumer_key = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'consumer_key')     consumer_secret = config.get('twitter_credentials', 'consumer_secret')      auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)     auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)     api = API(auth)     return api   def tweet_image(url, message):     api = twitter_api()     filename = 'temp.jpg'     request = requests.get(url, stream=True)     if request.status_code == 200:         with open(filename, 'wb') as image:             for chunk in request:                 image.write(chunk)          api.update_with_media(filename, status=message)         os.remove(filename)     else:         print("Unable to download image")   url = "http://animalia-life.com/data_images/bird/bird1.jpg" message = "Nice one" tweet_image(url, message)