Attempt to use twitter for generating random numbers

config

#no 'string quotes please'
[twitter]
CONSUMER_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx
CONSUMER_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxx
ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxx
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxx

randomizer.py

import twitter
import configparser
import random

def twitter_api():
    # example twitter_api().GetSearch("#np")
    #read config file
    config = configparser.ConfigParser()
    config.read('config')

    #initialize the Twitter API
    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=config['twitter']['CONSUMER_KEY'],
            consumer_secret=config['twitter']['CONSUMER_SECRET'],
            access_token_key=config['twitter']['ACCESS_TOKEN'],
            access_token_secret=config['twitter']['ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET'])
    return api

def get_trend(twitter_api=twitter_api(), woeid=23424977):
    # woeid: the Yahoo! Where On Earth ID for a location.
    # default is US
    trend = twitter_api.GetTrendsWoeid(woeid)[0]
    return trend.query

def get_search(twitter_api=twitter_api(), search=get_trend()):
    search = twitter_api.GetSearch(term=search, count=1,
                                    lang='en', result_type='recent')
    return search[0].text


def randomizer(seed=get_search()):
    random.seed(seed)
    return random.random()