tweepy_dl_conf.ini

[TWITTER]
twitter_consumer_key = XXXX
twitter_consumer_secret = XXXX
twitter_access_token = XXXX
twitter_access_token_secret =  XXXX

tweepy_dl_run.py

import tweepy
import configparser
from requests import get


def download_img(img_url):
    if img_url.endswith(('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png', '.gif')):
        img_name = img_url.split('/')[-1]
        img = get(img_url).content
        with open(img_name, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(img)


config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('conf.ini')
twitter_consumer_key = config['TWITTER']['twitter_consumer_key']
twitter_consumer_secret = config['TWITTER']['twitter_consumer_secret']
twitter_access_token = config['TWITTER']['twitter_access_token']
twitter_access_token_secret = config['TWITTER']['twitter_access_token_secret']

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(twitter_consumer_key, twitter_consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(twitter_access_token, twitter_access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

tweets = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='cats', lang='en').items(10)

for tweet in tweets:
    for media in tweet.entities.get('media',[{}]):
        if media.get('type', None) == 'photo':
            print(media['media_url'])
            download_img(media['media_url'])