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I want to extract information from Twitter using Python. There is a page with several twitter libraries:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries
Now I am not sure which one to use. Does anyone has experiences with them? I tried Twython and it is easy to handle but are the others worth a try too?
Tweepy is worth a go as it quite conveniently wraps the User, Tweet, Status etc… into easily accessible Python objects. The other one I’ve used is plain python-twitter, which does make interfacing easier, but is closer to raw bones JSON queries, and you have to remember the correct URLs to query. IIRC, both support standard interactions and the ability to use the tracking and searching engines.
Have a look on http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=twitter&submit=search for other options – but it really depends what you want to do and how. I’ve had success with the aforementioned but I can’t recommend any ideal Python twitter library.