findwhales.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#*
* to install the needed twitter module please run:
*   pip install python-twitter
*#
import twitter
from pprint import pprint

def main():
    """.."""
    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key="YOUR_KEY_HERE",
                      consumer_secret="YOUR_KEY_HERE",
                      access_token_key="YOUR_KEY_HERE",
                      access_token_secret="YOUR_KEY_HERE")

    search = api.GetSearch("#f57", count=100, result_type="recent")

    locations = {}

    num = 0
    for _search in search:
        num += 1
        location = _search.user.location.encode('utf-8')

        if len(location) > 0:
            if locations.get(location) is None:
                locations[location] = [_search]
            else:
                locations[location] += [_search]

    print ""
    print "locations:"
    for loc in locations:
        print loc, len(locations[loc])
        for _search in locations[loc]:
            print "text: {0}".format(_search.text.encode('utf-8'))
            print "tweet url: https://twitter.com/{0}/status/{1}" \
                  "".format(_search.user.screen_name.encode('utf-8'), _search.id)
            print "========"
        print '----'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()