Question

Suppose I do

tweets = api.home_timeline()

It returns a list of 20 recent tweepy status objects that is posted on my timeline.And if I do

for tweet in tweets:
    print tweet.text

It prints 20 messages.Is it possible to retrieve the time the status was posted? What other attributes does the status object have? Help needed.

Answer 1

tweet = tweets[0]
print tweet.created_at

Output will be a datetime object. E.g.:

(Pdb) tweet.created_at
datetime.datetime(2012, 6, 3, 20, 9, 24)

For all attributes, see the Twitter API docs. Tweepy docs will also interest you.