By: Jasper Tandy

Jasper Tandy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:46:10 +0000

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.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:42:19 +0000

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

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