twitter-home-timeline.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-hoome-timeline:
#  - uses the Twitter API and OAuth to log in as your username,
#    and lists the latest 50 tweets from people you are following 
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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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# request my home timeline
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/home_timeline
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statuses = twitter.statuses.home_timeline(count = 50)
print statuses

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# loop through each of my statuses, and print its content
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for status in statuses:
	print "(%s) @%s %s" % (status["created_at"], status["user"]["screen_name"], status["text"])