boto vs twython

boto

For the latest version of boto, see https://github.com/boto/boto3 -- Python interface to Amazon Web Services (by boto)

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docs.pythonboto.org

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twython

Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs. (by ryanmcgrath)

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boto		twython
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2	Mentions	1
6,487	Stars	1,849
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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boto

Posts with mentions or reviews of boto. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Amazon SES with Flask Python
1 project | /r/codehunter | 25 Mar 2022

I've seen the boto, but it's an interface to all the Amazon Services. I've seen some other custom examples as well.
Synchronise files to S3 with boto3
1 project | /r/aws | 17 Sep 2021

twython

Posts with mentions or reviews of twython. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

pysmashgg: A New Python Wrapper for smash.gg's new API!
1 project | /r/SSBM | 14 Jan 2021

In terms of the sleep thing, I hear you - I'm just offering advice from maintaining an API wrapper for 10+ years. There's two reasons you may want to consider here:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing boto and twython you can also consider the following projects:

boto3 - AWS SDK for Python

facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to use Facebook's Graph API with Python

Telethon - Pure Python 3 MTProto API Telegram client library, for bots too!

facebook-sdk - Python SDK for Facebook's Graph API

apache-libcloud - Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.

Python-Onfleet - A full-featured Python wrapper for the Onfleet API.

Gordon - λ Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation

BucketStore - A simple library for interacting with Amazon S3.

gmail - A Pythonic interface for Google Mail

hubspot3 - python3.6+ hubspot client based on hapipy, but modified to use the newer endpoints and non-legacy python