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at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. Wait a little while while your computer connects to Twitter. You should see a series of tweets run by your screen. If you don't, let a staff member know. |
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===Success!=== |
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Revision as of 21:10, 30 April 2014
Download the TwitterAPI project
- Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/cdsw/TwitterAPI.zip
- The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find TwitterAPI.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called TwitterAPI containing several files.
Test the TwitterAPI code
Start a command prompt and navigate to the Desktop\ColorWall directory where the ColorWall code lives. For example, if the ColorWall project is at C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\ColorWall
,
cd C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\ColorWall
will change you into that directory, and
dir
will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "twitter1.py", which has a ".py" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
python twitter1.py
at the command prompt to execute the run.py Python script. Wait a little while while your computer connects to Twitter. You should see a series of tweets run by your screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.
Success!
You are done downloading the TwitterAPI project!