Summary

In this chapter, we covered the basic functions of the Twitter API, from signing in with OAuth to location trends, how to perform simple queries, and how to get data from a specific Twitter user. Then we introduced the concept of streaming data using the Streaming API provided by the Twython library.

In the next chapter, we will present the basic concepts of MongoDB and how we can perform aggregation queries with a large amount of data.

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