LISA 10 Weigher

Lisa10.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2
import json
import base64
import operator
import math

PAGE = 1
BASE_URL='http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23lisa10&rpp=100&until=2010-11-12&page='

username = '' #your username here
password = '' #your password here

def Linker(username):
  return '<a href=http://twitter.com/' + username + '>' + username + '</a>'

def Cloud(text, size, tweets):
  return '<span style="font-size: ' + size + 'em">' + text + '</span><sup>'+ str(tweets) +'</sup><br>'

def Sizer(tweets):
  if tweets == 1:
    return str(1)
  else:
    return str(math.ceil(2 * math.log(tweets, math.e)))

stop = False

twitter_users = { }

while not stop:
  
  try:
    request = urllib2.Request( BASE_URL + str(PAGE) )
    request.add_header( 'Authorization', 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode( username + ':' + password ) )
    response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen( request ))

    for tweet in response['results']:
      if str(tweet['from_user']) in twitter_users:
        twitter_users[str(tweet['from_user'])] += 1
      else:
        twitter_users[str(tweet['from_user'])] = 1
    PAGE += 1
    
  except urllib2.HTTPError:
    stop = True

sorted_twitter_users = sorted(twitter_users.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
sorted_twitter_users.reverse()

for user in sorted_twitter_users:
  print Cloud(Linker(user[0]),Sizer(user[1]), user[1])

Don't make too much fun. This was a run-once script.