twitter-user-timeline.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-user-timeline
#  - displays a user's current timeline.
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from twitter import *

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# load our API credentials 
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config = {}
execfile("config.py", config)

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# create twitter API object
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twitter = Twitter(
		auth = OAuth(config["access_key"], config["access_secret"], config["consumer_key"], config["consumer_secret"]))

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# this is the user we're going to query.
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user = "ideoforms"

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# query the user timeline.
# twitter API docs:
# https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline
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results = twitter.statuses.user_timeline(screen_name = user)

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# loop through each status item, and print its content.
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for status in results:
	print "(%s) %s" % (status["created_at"], status["text"].encode("ascii", "ignore"))