twitter_favouriter.py

from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError
import sys


OAUTH_TOKEN     = 'GET'
OAUTH_SECRET    = 'YOUR'
CONSUMER_KEY    = 'OWN'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'TOKENS'

t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
 
print sys.stdout.encoding
 
def search_tweets(q, count=100, max_id=None):
    return t.search.tweets(q=q, result_type='recent', count=count, lang="en", max_id=max_id)
 
 
def favorites_create(tweet):
    try:
        result = t.favorites.create(_id=tweet['id'])
        print "Favorited: %s, %s" % (result['text'].encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace'), result['id'])
        return result
    except TwitterHTTPError as e:
        print "Error: ", e
        return None
 
 
def search_and_fav(q, count=100, max_id=None):
    result = search_tweets(q, count, max_id)
    first_id = result['statuses'][0]['id']
    last_id = result['statuses'][-1]['id']
    success = 0
    for t in result['statuses']:
        if favorites_create(t) is not None:
            success += 1
 
    print "Favorited total: %i of %i" % (success, len(result['statuses']))
    print "First id %s last id %s" % (first_id, last_id)


q = '#python'
search_and_fav(q)