Python Twitter Avatar Downloader

gistfile1.py

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# Quick & Dirty script to download the Avatars of your Twitter Followers
# Daniel McCarney -- 10/10/11
#
# Emphasis on the quick & dirty. There's no error handling, and bad things
# are liable to happen if you have Twitter followers with malicious avatars
#
# Requirements: Python 2.6, python-twitter, OAuth keys*
#
# *Twitter requires OAuth authentication for the API calls this script uses.
#  You'll need to set up an "App" at: https://dev.twitter.com/ and authorize
#  it access to your account. Take the consumer_key, the consumer_secret, the
#  access_token_key and the access_token_secret and use them to populate the
#  settings dictionary.
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## YOUR OAUTH SETTINGS GO HERE ##
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settings = {
  'consumer_key'        : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_CONSUMER_KEY',
  'consumer_secret'     : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_CONSUMER_SECRET',
  'access_token_key'    : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY',
  'access_token_secret' : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_TOKEN_SECRET',
}
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import sys, os.path, urllib2

try:
  import twitter
except ImportError:
  print "You must install the python-twitter library."
  sys.exit(1)

api = twitter.Api(
  consumer_key        = settings['consumer_key'],
  consumer_secret     = settings['consumer_secret'],
  access_token_key    = settings['access_token_key'],
  access_token_secret = settings['access_token_secret']
)

followers    = api.GetFollowers()
imageFetcher = urllib2.build_opener()

for user in followers:
  username = user.GetScreenName()
  imageURL = user.GetProfileImageUrl()

  filename  = os.path.split(imageURL)[1]
  extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]

  imageURLConn = imageFetcher.open(imageURL)
  avatarData   = imageURLConn.read()

  filename = "%s%s" %(username, extension)

  avatarFile = open(filename, "wb")
  avatarFile.write(avatarData)
  avatarFile.close()

  print "Username: %s File: %s" %(username, filename)