Tweepy API: add tags / mentions to attached photo

Question

I have created a twitter bot using the Tweepy API. It works great, it tweets a tweet with a photo attached to it. However, I would like to add "mentions" or "In this photo" @accounts (tags) to the attached image. This is possible on twitter. I have red the Tweepy documentation and searched online, looking for a parameter but I could not find anything. Any suggestion would appriciated!

code snippet:

api = tweepy.API(oauth)

api.update_with_media(filename='screenshot.png', status=masterStatus)

Answer 1

First of all, please do not use update_with_media , as this is a deprecated API. It works for now, but will get no support. The current correct route is the two-step use of media_upload , followed by update_status (you can also add image alt text using create_media_metadata in between those two steps, if you like). The Tweepy 3.9.0 documentation mentions this.

For the main part of the question - the Twitter API itself does not currently support adding people tags to images, so this is also unavailable in Tweepy. If you would like to request this feature in a future version of the Twitter API, you can do so here .