Create an 'everyone' list on Twitter

twitter-everyone-list.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import warnings
warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)

import httplib2, urllib, time
from urllib import urlencode
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json

from config import USERNAME, PASSWORD

FRIENDS = "http://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json"

h = httplib2.Http()
h.add_credentials(USERNAME, PASSWORD, 'api.twitter.com')

# make list - TODO check for existing list and update that

data = dict(name="everyone", description="everyone I follow")
headers, body = h.request(
    "http://api.twitter.com/1/%s/lists.json" % USERNAME, "POST", urlencode(data)
)
list_info = json.loads(body)
print list_info
list_id = list_info['id']

print "Created 'everyone' list with id '%s'" % list_id

# fetch friends

headers, body = h.request(
    FRIENDS, method='GET'
)
friend_ids = json.loads(body)

for id in friend_ids:
    data = dict(list_id=list_id, id=id)
    headers, body = h.request(
        "http://api.twitter.com/1/%s/%s/members.json" % (USERNAME, list_id), "POST", urlencode(data)
    )
    user_info = json.loads(body)
    print "Added user id %s" % id

# TODO remove users no longer followed