twitter_friends.py

"""
    Use with:
    python twitter_friends.py > twitter_friends.csv
    
    JSON Tools:
    http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/
    http://jsonparser.com/
"""

import urllib2
import json

screen_name = "your_twitter_name"

friends_ids = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("https://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name="+screen_name).read())

friends_strids = ','.join(str(x) for x in friends_ids["ids"])

friends_json = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?user_id="+friends_strids).read())

for x in friends_json:
    print "{},{},\"{}\"".format(x["id_str"], x["screen_name"].encode('utf8'), x["name"].encode('utf8'))