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Media metadata: alt text support

See original GitHub issue

Twitter has added a media metadata API endpoint. Currently it supports adding alt text to an image: https://blog.twitter.com/2016/alt-text-support-for-twitter-cards-and-the-rest-api

Other parts of the API are also being extended with a include_ext_alt_text parameter.

The above link notes that “Full documentation for this endpoint will soon be published and linked directly once available”.

(Issue copied from tweepy, they have a PR too.)

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Created 7 years ago
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RouxRCcommented, Jun 5, 2017

Or simply publish a release when required, cf #356 😉

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RouxRCcommented, May 15, 2016

All right, done this and added python3 handling, doc and tests, merged in master. I’m adding via a PR handling shortcut arguments for this function as suggested by @hugovk , it might not be the direction you want the lib to take @sixohsix so i’ll let you decide. If we go for it and other cases appear, we could think to some kind of formalization of the thing in some kind of “helper modules”

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