BotOrNot Python API

A Python API for Truthy BotOrNot.

Behind the scenes, this uses the BotOrNot's REST endpoint as illustrated in this notebook.

Quickstart

import botornot

twitter_app_auth = {
    'consumer_key': 'xxxxxxxx',
    'consumer_secret': 'xxxxxxxxxx',
    'access_token': 'xxxxxxxxx',
    'access_token_secret': 'xxxxxxxxxxx',
  }
bon = botornot.BotOrNot(**twitter_app_auth)

bon.check_account('@clayadavis')

Result:

{
  "score": 0.37,
  "meta": {"screen_name": "clayadavis", "user_id": "1548959833"},
  "categories": {
    "content_classification": 0.27,
    "friend_classification": 0.15,
    "network_classification": 0.17,
    "sentiment_classification": 0.25,
    "temporal_classification": 0.43,
    "user_classification": 0.36
  }
}

Install instructions

1. Clone this repository and navigate to it with your terminal of choice.
2. python setup.py install

Dependencies

Python dependencies

• requests
• tweepy

Both of these dependencies are available via pip, so you can install both at once with

pip install requests tweepy

Twitter app

In order to access Twitter's API, one needs to have/create a Twitter app. Once you've created an app, the authentication info can be found in the "Keys and Access Tokens" tab of the app's properties: