import warnings warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning) import httplib2, urllib, time try: import json except ImportError: import simplejson as json from config import USERNAME, PASSWORD USER_TIMELINE = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json" FILE = "my_tweets.json" h = httplib2.Http() h.add_credentials(USERNAME, PASSWORD, 'twitter.com') def load_all(): try: return json.load(open(FILE)) except IOError: return [] def fetch_and_save_new_tweets(): tweets = load_all() old_tweet_ids = set(t['id'] for t in tweets) if tweets: since_id = max(t['id'] for t in tweets) else: since_id = None new_tweets = fetch_all(since_id) num_new_saved = 0 for tweet in new_tweets: if tweet['id'] not in old_tweet_ids: tweets.append(tweet) num_new_saved += 1 tweets.sort(key = t['id'], reverse=True) # Delete the 'user' key for t in tweets: if 'user' in t: del t['user'] # Save back to disk json.dump(tweets, open(FILE, 'w'), indent = 2) print ("Saved %s new tweets") % num_new_saved def fetch_all(since_id = None): all_tweets = [] seen_ids = set() page = 0 args = {'count': 200} if since_id is not None: args['since_id'] = since_id all_tweets_len = len(all_tweets) while True: args['page'] = page headers, body = h.request( USER_TIMELINE + '?' + urllib.urlencode(args), method='GET' ) page += 1 tweets = json.loads(body) if 'error' in tweets: raise (ValueError, tweets) if not tweets: break for tweet in tweets: if tweet['id'] not in seen_ids: seen_ids.add(tweet['id']) all_tweets.append(tweet) #print "Fetched another %s" % (len(all_tweets) - all_tweets_len) all_tweets_len = len(all_tweets) time.sleep(2) all_tweets.sort(key = t['id'], reverse=True) return all_tweets if __name__ == '__main__': fetch_and_save_new_tweets()