Convert a newline-separated list of Twitter @Handles to Twitter IDs

user_to_id.py

from twitter import Twitter, OAuth
import time

oauth = {
    'OAUTH_TOKEN': '',
    'OAUTH_SECRET': '',
    'CONSUMER_KEY': '',
    'CONSUMER_SECRET': '',
}

twitter = Twitter(auth=OAuth(oauth['OAUTH_TOKEN'], oauth['OAUTH_SECRET'], oauth['CONSUMER_KEY'], oauth['CONSUMER_SECRET']))

users = [line.strip() for line in open("users.txt").readlines()]
ids = open('ids.txt', 'w')

for user in users:
    id = str(twitter.users.lookup(screen_name=user)[0]['id'])
    print user + " has an ID of " + id
    ids.write(id + "\n")
    # time.sleep(1)  # Optional: to combat API rate-limiting for large lists
ids.write("\b")