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retrieve trending topics from a WOEID location
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# encoding: utf-8 | |
""" | |
twitrend.py | |
""" | |
import sys | |
import os | |
import tweepy | |
import json | |
def main(): | |
""" main function | |
""" | |
# own OAuth consumer key, secret, and access key and token required | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret) | |
api = tweepy.API(auth, secure = True) | |
woeid = 23424977 | |
retrieved = api.trends_location(woeid) | |
# gives us full output: | |
print retrieved[0] | |
# gives us '0': | |
print retrieved[0][0] | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
try: | |
main() | |
except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit): | |
# actually raise these, for a clean exit | |
raise | |
except Exception, error: | |
# all other exceptions: display the error | |
print error | |
else: | |
pass | |
finally: | |
# exit cleanly once we've done everything else | |
sys.exit(0) |
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