An example Twitter search using the 1.1 API.

twitter_search.py

#!/env/bin/python

import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1

API_BASE = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/'
auth_url = API_BASE + 'account/verify_credentials.json'
tweets_url = API_BASE + 'search/tweets.json'

tweets_params = {
    'q': '#hashtag',
    'count': 100
}

auth = OAuth1('YOUR_APP_KEY', 'YOUR_APP_SECRET',
              'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN', 'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET')
requests.get(auth_url, auth=auth)

tweets = requests.get(tweets_url, auth=auth, params=tweets_params)
for status in tweets.json()['statuses']:
    print status['text']