How to install Tweepy in Python

Twitter is a social networking service that allows the users to post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Twitter allows us to extract the tweets of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy.

In this article, we will see the installation steps of tweepy.

Using pip

Installing Tweepy using pip is an easy method. You can install the latest version of Tweepy using the pip command,

pip install tweepy

Using Git repository

You can also use Git to clone the repository from GitHub to install the latest development version:

git clone https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git
cd tweepy
pip install .

Alternatively, you can install directly from the GitHub repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git