Splatfest popularity predictions (based on twitter search API, Python3 and python requests)

conf.json

{
  "api_keys":{
    "key":"your_consumer_key",
    "secret":"your_oauth_secret"
  },
  "search_query":"#Splatoon AND (north -america -american OR south) since:2015-08-01 -filter:retweets",
  "team1":{
    "name":"Regex South",
    "regex":"South"
  },
  "team2":{
    "name":"Regex North",
    "regex":"North(?!\\s{0,1}America)"
  }
}

twsearch.py

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import json
import operator
import re


def get_token(login, password):
    data = "grant_type=client_credentials"
    headers = {
        'Content-type':"application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8",
    }
    con = requests.post('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token',
                        auth=HTTPBasicAuth(login, password),
                        data=data,
                        headers=headers)
    if con.status_code != 200:
        print(con.json())
        exit(1)
    return con.json()

def search(tokens, query, max_id=None, hashtags={}):
    headers = {
            'Authorization': 'Bearer {access_token}'.format(**tokens),
    }
    params = {
        "q": query,
        "count":100
    }
    back_id = None
    if max_id :
        params["max_id"]=max_id
        back_id = max_id

    r = requests.get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json",
                       params=params,
                       headers=headers)

    if r.status_code == 200:
        for row in r.json()['statuses']:
            print(row['text'])
            if team1.search(row['text']):
                    #print("match a")
                    count = hashtags.get(team1name,0)
                    hashtags[team1name]= count + 1

            if team2.search(row['text']):
                    #print("match b")
                    count = hashtags.get(team2name,0)
                    hashtags[team2name]= count + 1

            for hash in row['entities']['hashtags']:
                tag = hash['text'].lower()
                if team1.search(tag) or team2.search(tag):
                    count = hashtags.get(tag,0)
                    hashtags[tag]= count + 1

            back_id = max_id
            max_id = row['id_str']

        sorted_x = sorted(hashtags.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))

        print("hash;count")
        for x in sorted_x:
            print("{0};{1}".format(*x))
        print("")
        search(tokens, query, max_id=max_id,hashtags=hashtags)
    elif r.status_code == 404:
        print("ERROR {0}: {1}".format(r.status_code,r.url))
        if back_id :
            search(tokens, query, max_id=back_id,hashtags=hashtags)
    else:
        print("ERROR {0}: {1}".format(r.status_code,r.text))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('conf.json') as conf_file:
        conf = json.load(conf_file)
    key = conf["api_keys"]["key"]
    secret = conf["api_keys"]["secret"]
    query = conf["search_query"]
    team1name = conf["team1"]["name"]
    team2name = conf["team2"]["name"]
    team1 = re.compile(conf["team1"]["regex"], re.IGNORECASE|re.MULTILINE)
    team2 = re.compile(conf["team2"]["regex"], re.IGNORECASE|re.MULTILINE)

    tokens  = get_token(key,secret)
    search(tokens,query)