A faster way to access, manage & use Twitter. Built with aiohttp.
Alokka is an asynchronous library wrapping the new v2 Twitter API endpoints. It's fast, simple to use, has sensible builtin utility methods & functions to use & most important, it's modern. It's an alternative to Tweepy that relies on being simple to use first & foremost.
Alokka is available on PyPi, so its easy to install with pip. Run the following command & ensure you've a virtual environment set up already.
pip install alokka # You might've to use sudo, although it's discouragedThe source code of Alokka is made available for the general public to take a look at, borrow ideas off of, fork & anything you want to as long the LICENSE permits you to do so. Which also means, you can contribute your ideas & help make Alokka better. Or perhaps, you found a bug & would like to contribute a fix. If that's what you want, this section might be of interest to you.
But before proceeding further, read the Contributing Guidelines thoroughly. It contains specific instructions to get started contributing to the project as well guidelines to maintain civility in the community.
Alokka was partly written & maintained by Somraj Saha but it consists of community contributions too. Hence, to make use of Alokka as permissible as possible, the source code is licensed under the T&Cs of the MIT License. Check the LICENSE document for more information on the T&Cs.
Drop an email at somraj(dot)mle(at)gmail(dot)com or leave a DM over Twitter. Got queries about the project? You'll receive better help & community support from the issue threads or the discussion threads. Check those instead.