tweetanalsy.py

import re
from re import sub
import time
import cookielib
from cookielib import CookieJar
import urllib2
from urllib2 import urlopen
import difflib
cj = CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
keyWord = 'obama'
startingLink = 'https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q='
 
oldTwit = []
newTwit=[]

while 1 < 2:
         try:
             sourceCode = opener.open('https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q='+keyWord+'&src=hash').read()
             splitSource = re.findall(r'<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text">(.*?)</p>',sourceCode)
             
             for item in splitSource:
                 print item
                 print '_______________'

                 aTweet = re.sub(r'<.*?>','',item)
                 print aTweet
                 newTwit.append(aTweet)

             comparison = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None,newTwit,oldTwit)
             howSim = comparison.ratio()
             print '#############'
             print 'This selection is',howSim,'similar to the past'
             
             oldTwit = [None]
             for eachItem in newTwit:
             	oldTwit.append(eachItem)
             	newTwit = [None]
             	time.sleep(howSim*1.5)
    
         except Exception, e:
            print str(e)
            print 'error in the main try'
            time.sleep(100)