Get Trending Hashtags For Any Location

How To Get Trending Hashtags From Twitter

Authenticate with the Twitter API. Get your keys at https://apps.twitter.com.

import tweepy

consumer_key = 'XXXX'
consumer_secret = 'XXXX'
access_key = 'XXXX'
access_secret = 'XXXX'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

Now to get those pesky trending hashtags. We have to supply a location in the form of a Where On Earth Identifier (WOEID). You can look these up at http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz. I've chosen the United Kingdom.

for location in api.trends_place('23424975'):
  for trend in location['trends']:
      trend = trend['name']
      print(trend)

That'll spew out all the trending topics and hashtags. We only want the hashtags so we'll change our code like so...

for location in api.trends_place('23424975'):
  for trend in location['trends']:
      trend = trend['name']
      if trend.startswith('#'):
          print(trend)

That's better. I'm only interested in using 2 of them, in a single string, so we'll wrap all this up into a function and have it return a given amount.

from random import sample

def get_trending(amount):
    trending = []
    for location in api.trends_place('23424975'):
        for trend in location['trends']:
            trend = trend['name']
            if trend.startswith('#'):
                trending.append(trend)
    return sample(trending, amount)

hashtags = ' '.join(get_trending(2))
print(hashtags)

Thanks for reading. x

Resources

• Python: https://python.org
• Tweepy: https://tweepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest