More Python and Twitter
After spending 2 days wrestling with urllib2 and status updates, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. It just wouldn’t post a tweet. Fortunately, on google code there’s a library for interfacing with twitter that makes it pretty easy. I quite like the idea of a Terminal client for twitter, so I’ll probably finish writing Twitterminal, but I won’t be half as proud of it as if I’d managed to get it working with urllib2. Oh well.
On a sidenote, Textmate is literally awesome. I’ve done a lot of customising it in the last day and the bundles are actually encouraging me to document my code (probably too) fully.
Binny V A:
Here is a small python script I use to get my friends’ status…
#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
username = “binnyva”
password = “password_goes_here”
friends_timeline_url = “http://”+username+”:”+password+”@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml”
public_timeline_url = “http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml” #Not used
dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(friends_timeline_url))
for status in dom.getElementsByTagName(”status”):
user_name = status.getElementsByTagName(”name”)[0].firstChild.data
tweet = status.getElementsByTagName(”text”)[0].firstChild.data
created_at = status.getElementsByTagName(”created_at”)[0].firstChild.data.split(”+”)[0]
print user_name, “: \”" + tweet + “\” at ” + created_at + “\n”
To post tweets, I use the Command Line Twitter Client
Jasper Tandy:
Thanks - the main thing I was trying to do was use urllib/urllib2 to wrap around the Twitter API and take care of all of that. I’ve done it now, but I’ve stopped using Twitter as I can’t really be bothered with a site that is so unreliable!
I’ll upload my Twitter thing at some point as I quite like the way it works, but it’s not polished, just literally a CLI for interfacing with Twitter.