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A cow that can read any (public) users mind
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natread.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import json, urllib, os, textwrap
user = 'natbat'
url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.json"
pipe = os.popen("cowthink -n", 'w')
pipe.write('\n'.join(textwrap.wrap(
json.load(urllib.urlopen(url % user))[0]['text'])
))
pipe.close()
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