Events

Using Tweety you can also listen to the events and respond to them.

Listen for new Message

Attention

Each triggered event will call the callback function in a new thread for time begin , in later versions , full async supprt will be added

class NewMessageUpdate

Reference:

tweety.events.newmessage.NewMessageUpdate

You can listen to new messages using this method. Check the example below for reference

from tweety.bot import Twitter


cookies = cookies_value
client = Twitter(cookies=cookies)
@client.on(events.NewMessageUpdate)
def newMessage(event):
     event.respond("OKAY")

client.run_until_disconnected()

The user will register a new event handler NewMessageUpdate which will start listening for new messages. When this event triggers the function newMessage will be called when one positional argument event. The class of this event is NewMessage