Access to your own twitter timeline, with the Twitter API 1.1

twitter_timeline.py

import re
import oauth2 as oauth
from dateutil.parser import parse
from json import loads

CONSUMER_KEY = "***************"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "***************"
ACCESS_TOKEN = "***************"
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "***************"

def get_twitter_timeline(nb_tweets):
    """ 
    Access to own twitter timeline 
        1. Log in with your personal account on https://dev.twitter.com/apps
        2. Create an application with some fancy parameters (don't care about it)
        3. Get CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET and set it in this script
        4. Create an access token then set "access token" and "access token secret" in this script
    """
    def oauth_req(url, key, secret, http_method="GET", post_body=None, http_headers=None):
        consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=CONSUMER_KEY, secret=CONSUMER_SECRET)
        token = oauth.Token(key=key, secret=secret)
        client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)

        resp, content = client.request(
            url,
            method=http_method
        )
        return content

    try:
        timeline = oauth_req(
        'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=%s' % nb_tweets,
        ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
    except:
        return {'tweets': [{'text': 'Impossible de contacter l\'API Twitter :(', }]}

    tweets = []
    for tweet in loads(timeline):
        text = tweet['text']
        link = "http://twitter.com/%s/status/%s" % (tweet['user']['screen_name'], tweet['id'])
        date = parse(tweet['created_at']).strftime('%d %b %Y')

        if '@' in text:
            text = re.sub(r'@(\w+)', r'<a href="http://twitter.com/\1">@\1</a>', text)

        tweets.append({'text': text, 'link': link, 'date': date})

    return {'tweets': tweets}


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "Affichage des 5 derniers tweets"
    print get_twitter_timeline(5)