#GitHubCoPilot 🤖 – Real Scenario: let’s send a tweet! 🐦

Hi !

Next question on the line: how useful is CoPilot in day to day tasks?

So, I decided to use copilot to help me solve a current problem: send a tweet.

Usually I’ll perform a couple of search, test some libraries, etc.

I’ll do this at full speed with the CoPilot suggestion.

This is the generated code

# send a tweet with a custom message

import tweepy

CONSUMER_KEY = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET'
ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

api.update_status(status='Hello World from Copilot !!!')

I used CoPilot in 2 steps

• First suggestion to use a library, tweepy.
• Use the library to send a tweet.

Installed, the library with the following command

pip install tweepy

And I was ready to send a tweet!

This is the generated tweet !

Conclusion

Test done, and it works ! in less than 5 minutes, I was able to send a tweet.

However, I need to share a couple of thoughts:

• If I’m planning to really use this, I will spend more time reading about the tweepy library. It looks great, and I’ll add some reading work to validate that.
• I may also test some other libraries, learning moment.
• I’m not an expert on how twitter API handles security, so why now study some OAuth.
• I already have a set of keys and secrets in Twitter. That saved me at least 5 minutes.

At the end, this 5 minutes will result in a full set of days of learning new technologies. Awesome !

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