getTweetsWithBear.py

import requests
import os
import json

# To set your enviornment variables in your terminal run the following line:
# export 'BEARER_TOKEN'='<your_bearer_token>'
# Actually need to run this IN THE VENV the terminal that is running the app.py
# export TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN
# The quotes broke it for m

def auth():
    return os.environ.get("TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN")


def create_url():
    tweet_fields = "tweet.fields=lang,author_id"
    # Tweet fields are adjustable.
    # Options include:
    # attachments, author_id, context_annotations,
    # conversation_id, created_at, entities, geo, id,
    # in_reply_to_user_id, lang, non_public_metrics, organic_metrics,
    # possibly_sensitive, promoted_metrics, public_metrics, referenced_tweets,
    # source, text, and withheld
    ids = "ids=1372437344851214339"
    # You can adjust ids to include a single Tweets.
    # Or you can add to up to 100 comma-separated IDs
    url = "https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets?{}&{}".format(ids, tweet_fields)
    return url


def create_headers(bearer_token):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(bearer_token)}
    return headers


def connect_to_endpoint(url, headers):
    response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
    print(response.status_code)
    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise Exception(
            "Request returned an error: {} {}".format(
                response.status_code, response.text
            )
        )
    return response.json()


def main():
    bearer_token = auth()
    url = create_url()
    headers = create_headers(bearer_token)
    json_response = connect_to_endpoint(url, headers)
    print(json.dumps(json_response, indent=4, sort_keys=True))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()