Little Tweet ripper

get.py

## little tweet ripper, run python get.py ABPH11

import operator
import sys
import urllib
import json

url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json"
u_hash = {}

def page(page, term):
        last_created_at = None

        params = urllib.urlencode({'q': term,
                'rpp' : 100,
                'page' : page})
        f = urllib.urlopen("%s?%s" % (url, params))

        print page

        o = json.load(f)
        for tweet in o['results']:
                if tweet['from_user'] in u_hash:
                        u_hash[tweet['from_user']] += 1
                else:
                        u_hash[tweet['from_user']] = 1
                print "%s: %s" % (tweet['from_user'], tweet['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'))

                last_created_at = tweet['created_at']

        return last_created_at


def go(term):
        for n in xrange(1, 15):
                if not page(n, term):
                        break

#       for key, val in u_hash.iteritems():
#               print key, val

        authors = sorted(u_hash.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
        for a in authors:
                print a[0], a[1]

go(sys.argv[1])