Learn Python with Pj! Part 5 - Build a hashtag tracker with the Twitter API

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This post details the technical implementation of a real-time hashtag tracker using Python, the Tweepy library, and the Twitter API. It explains API authentication using OAuth1UserHandler, handling of extended tweets via `status.extended_tweet["full_text"]`, and the use of environmental variables with `.env` and `python-dotenv` for secure credential management. The code demonstrates creating a custom stream class (`LogTweets`) inheriting from `tweepy.Stream` and implementing the `on_status` method to process incoming tweets. It also covers filtering tweets by hashtags using `stream.filter(track=hashtags)`.