twitter_api.py

import pandas
import tweepy
import configparser

# read configs
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('config.ini')

api_key = config['twitter']['api_key']
api_key_secret = config['twitter']['api_key_secret']

access_token = config['twitter']['access_token']
access_token_secret = config['twitter']['access_token_secret']

# authentication
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(api_key, api_key_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

public_tweets = api.home_timeline()

columns = ['Time', 'User', 'Tweet']
data = []

for tweet in public_tweets:
    data.append([tweet.created_at,tweet.user.screen_name, tweet.text])

df = pandas.DataFrame(data, columns=columns)

print(df)

#to save data to csv 
df.to_csv('tweets.csv')