Get http and https Twitter share counts for https://twitter.com/peeplaja

twitter_counts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import requests, json

api = 'http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url='
protocols = ['http://', 'https://']

def get_all(url):
    '''check twitter API for URLs with both protocols'''
    counts = []
    for protocol in protocols:
        r  = requests.get(api + protocol + url)
        data = r.text
        x = json.loads(data)
        if 'count' in x:
            try:
                counts.append(x['count'])
            except:
                pass

    print url
    print 'List of counts:' ,counts
    print 'Sum of counts:' ,sum(counts)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_all('nomadlist.com')
    get_all('www.rustybrick.com')
    get_all('en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability')
    get_all('en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus')