print 'An example of using the Tweepy library...'
-# Some twitter credentials.
-# Fill these in with your own login credentials.
-username = ''
-password = ''
+# We need an authentication handler to tell twitter who we are.
+# First let's make one using basic auth.
+basic_auth = tweepy.BasicAuthHandler('tweebly', 'omega1987twitter')
-# Create an instance of the API object.
-api = tweepy.API(username, password)
+# Now a handler for oauth.
+oauth_auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler('consumer_key', 'consumer_secrete')
+
+# Create an instance of the API object and use the basic auth handler.
+api = tweepy.API(basic_auth)
# Let's get a list of the statuses on the public timeline
# and print the texts to the console.
# You can also setup up a cache.
# Here we will use an in-memory cache with a timeout of 60 seconds.
-cached_api = tweepy.API(username, password, cache=tweepy.MemoryCache(timeout=60))
+cached_api = tweepy.API(basic_auth, cache=tweepy.MemoryCache(timeout=60))
# First request here will not be cached
s = cached_api.get_status(id=123)