simple twitter search api client

twitter_search.py

import json
import urllib
import time

def search_twitter(query, callback, maxpages=10):
	resp = urllib.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com/search.json%s' % query)
	data = json.loads(resp.read())
	for item in data['results']:
		callback(item)
	if 'next_page' in data and maxpages > 1:
		time.sleep(0.5)
		search_twitter(data['next_page'], callback, maxpages - 1)

if __name__ == '__main__':

	import sys	
	query = '?' + urllib.urlencode({'q': ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]), 'rpp': 100})

	def tester(item):
		print item['text'].encode('ascii', 'replace')

	search_twitter(query, tester)