the end of some twitter stuff

twitter1.py

import twitter
import json
import urllib2

WORLD_WOE_ID = 1
US_WOE_ID = 23424977

def authenticate():
    CONSUMER_KEY = 'secret'
    CONSUMER_SECRET = 'supersecret'
    OAUTH_TOKEN = 'mytoken'
    OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = 'mytokensecret'

    auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,
                              CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
    return twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)

def get_trends(twitter_api, where=US_WOE_ID, full_records=False):
    trends = twitter_api.trends.place(_id=where)
    if full_records:
        return trends
    else:
        return [t for t in trends[0]['trends']]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    twitter_api = authenticate()
    if twitter_api:
        print "Successfully authenticated."
    else:
        exit(1)
    query = "#Python"
    search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(q=query, count=1000)
    we_care_about = ["text", "favorite_count", "created_at"]
    
    print json.dumps(search_results["search_metadata"], indent=1)

    status_file = open("statuses.json", "w")
    status_file.write('{\n')    
    while True:
        statuses = search_results["statuses"]
        for status in statuses:
            mini_dict = {}
            [mini_dict.setdefault(key, status[key]) for key in we_care_about]
            json.dump(mini_dict, status_file, indent=1, sort_keys=True)
            status_file.write(',')
        next_results = search_results["search_metadata"].get("next_results")
        if not next_results:
            break
        kwargs = dict([ kv.split('=') for kv in next_results[1:].split("&") ])
        search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(**kwargs)
    status_file.write('\n}')
    status_file.close()
    """
    trends = get_trends(twitter_api, full_records=False)
    trend_file = open("trends.json", "w")
    print "Current trends:", json.dumps(trends, indent=1)
    print "Adding trends to trend_file.",
    json.dump(trends, trend_file, indent=1, sort_keys=True)
    trend_file.close()
    """