Python script for printing out an account's tweets

account_tweets.py

"""
Script for printing out tweets from a given account

Sample usage:

    python account_tweets.py qikipedia
"""
import twitter
import sys

# Put your credentials in a config.py module
from config import *  # noqa

api = twitter.Api(
    consumer_key=TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
    consumer_secret=TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
    access_token_key=TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY,
    access_token_secret=TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
)


# Filters


def ignore_retweets(tweet):
    if not tweet.text.startswith("RT"):
        return tweet


def word_of_the_day(tweet):
    if tweet.text.startswith("Word of the day"):
        return tweet


# Stop functions


NEVER = lambda _: True


# Core tweet printing


def write_tweets(username, writer, filters=(), stop_fn=NEVER):
    """
    Write tweets to the given file-object

    Filters are functions that take a tweet and return either a filtered version of the tweet text
    or None if the tweet is to be filtered out.

    The stop function defines when to stop iterating.
    """
    for tweet in filtered_tweets(username, filters=filters, stop_fn=stop_fn):
        writer.write("%s - %s - %s\n" % (tweet.text, tweet.id, url(tweet)))


def url(tweet):
    # username doesn't matter, it will get redirected
    return "https://twitter.com/someusername/status/%s" % tweet.id


def filtered_tweets(username, filters, stop_fn):
    for tweet in tweets(username, stop_fn=stop_fn):
        filtered_tweet = filter_tweet(tweet, filters)
        if filtered_tweet is not None:
            yield filtered_tweet


def filter_tweet(tweet, filters):
    for f in filters:
        tweet = f(tweet)
        if tweet is None:
            return
    return tweet


def tweets(username, stop_fn, batch_size=10):
    """
    Return a generator that emits tweet status objects
    """
    max_id = None
    while True:
        # Fetch tweets in batches
        statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=username, max_id=max_id, count=batch_size)
        if len(statuses) == 0:
            break
        for status in statuses:
            yield status
            max_id = status.id - 1


if __name__ == "__main__":
    username = sys.argv[1]
    writer = sys.stdout

    # Pass custom filters here
    filters = [
        ignore_retweets,
        word_of_the_day,
    ]

    write_tweets(username, writer, filters)

Could you do a tutorial on how to use this please

@xenonbeats

1. Install the Python twitter client (pip install python-twitter)
2. Create a config.py file with your credentials for python-twitter client (see docs for python-twitter)
3. Run with python account_tweets.py $USERNAME
4. Adapt the filter functions that are passed in if you want to filter out certain tweets