I need to get the latest direct message from any user.
What I already tried is:
#importing twython and creating session.....
#api is the sessions name
results = api.cursor(api.get_direct_messages)
but the api only allows 15 requests per 15 minutes and get_direct_messages uses all of them... So I can do api.get_direct_messages only once...
So is there a way to get only the latest/newest direct message from any user? (And not using all of the 15 requests at once)?
Edit/Solution: It turned out that there is no real solution to this problem because in order to get the latest message you have to find out it's id via get_direct_messages() which I don't want to use.
A little more looking at twythons git shows this page using the following code :
get_list = twitter.get_direct_messages()
#Returns All Twitter DM information which is a lot in a list format
dm_dict = get_list[0] #Show latest message
#You can cycle through all the numbers and it will return the text and the Sender id of each
print dm_dict['text']
print dm_dict['sender']['id']
some testing on my end shows this working repeatedly dspite the 15 minute limit. I have managed to return the n'th DM every minute for 10 minites