Twitter's most popular

TwitterClient

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6

import pycurl, json


user = "YOURTWITTERNAME"
password = "YOURTWITTERPASSWORD"
streamurl = "https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json"
track = "locations=-74,40,-73,41" # nyc


class TwitterClient:
    # set curl options
    def __init__(self):
        self.persons = []
        self.buffer = ""
        self.connection = pycurl.Curl()
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.URL, streamurl)
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.HTTPAUTH, pycurl.HTTPAUTH_ANY)
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.USERPWD, "{0}:{1}".format(user, password))
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, track)
        self.connection.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, self.curlWriteback)

        # try to talk to the api
        try:
            self.connection.perform()
        except pycurl.error as e:
            print("ooops")
        finally:
            self.connection.close()


    # handle respones from api
    def curlWriteback(self, data):
        self.buffer += data

        if data.endswith("\r\n"):
            content = json.loads(self.buffer)
            user = content["user"]["screen_name"].encode("utf-8").replace("\n", " ")
            followers = content["user"]["followers_count"]

            self.processTuples(user, followers)
            self.buffer = ""


    # for now we put the tuples in a list; feel free to improve this
    def processTuples(self, user, followers):
        self.persons.append((user, followers))

        # print the list every time we add 50 new tuples
        if(len(self.persons) % 50 == 0):
            self.showResults()


    # remove duplicates, sort by followers and print the tuples
    def showResults(self):
        self.persons = sorted(dict(self.persons).items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)

        print("Twitter's most popular (looked at {0} so far)".format(len(self.persons)))
        for name, followers in self.persons[:10]:
            print("{0}, {1}".format(followers, name))


# entry
if __name__ == '__main__':
    TwitterClient()