Twitter and Facebook API introduction

API.py

# Twitter API

# In order to do the authenticated version, you need to download a ton of modules. 
# Once you have a specific module on your desktop, move in to your home folder. 
# Then, in the terminal window, cd to the folder. Once you're inside the folder, type 

# python setup.py build
# python setup.py install 
# python setup.py test 

# and it will install the module. 
# The ones you will need are simplejson, httplib2, python-oauth2, and python-twitter.

# Then, you have to register an application on twitter. I registered one for Mark's class, which anyone can play with. It has
# consumer_key = 'G5ZlcKqNUzYiGqHhK0pi2A'
# consumer_secret ='7qI8ZXzMnogWw0gU3IWhBtnksqjHXiwa1HVZnAScaLc'

# Once you have these things, you can add them to the get_access_token.py file in the folder that contains all the python-twitter things. 
# Once you have both those codes in the file (on the Mac, at least, you need quotes around it) you can type

python get_access_token.py

# in the terminal command line. This should provide you with a URL to go to. I went there in my browser. 
# This will link your twitter username with this application. 
# Say yes and it will give you a pincode, which you can copy-paste into the command line prompt. 
# The return of this will be the access token stuff. 

# Your Twitter Access Token key: access_token_key='19520842-9Fk6Koo6EgLAZWFmrPWF2zUmfz3m7baBAr0YlLiDI'
# access_token_secret='UqeYPuOmt31X3qvE75EY4VQv8tJqJ5aLFagsqjNOJI'

# and then you can use these things when you get into python. 

# Now lets open python! 

import twitter
api=twitter.Api(consumer_key='G5ZlcKqNUzYiGqHhK0pi2A', consumer_secret='7qI8ZXzMnogWw0gU3IWhBtnksqjHXiwa1HVZnAScaLc', access_token_key='19520842-9Fk6Koo6EgLAZWFmrPWF2zUmfz3m7baBAr0YlLiDI', access_token_secret='UqeYPuOmt31X3qvE75EY4VQv8tJqJ5aLFagsqjNOJI')

users = api.GetFriends('AmeliaMN')
print [u.name for u in users]
statuses=api.GetUserTimeline('cocteau')
print [s.text  for s in statuses]




# Facebook API:

# You can interact with this API easily through your browser. 
# https://graph.facebook.com/amelia.mcnamara
# http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

# If you want to get more hardcore, you need more hardcore tools. 
# First, you need the module pyfacebook, which you install in the same way. 
# Then, you need a server and django. 

# Lets play with the basic stuff in python:

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
import BeautifulSoup

url="https://graph.facebook.com/amelia.mcnamara"
req=urllib2.Request(url)
response=urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
bs=BeautifulStoneSoup(response)
print bs.prettify()