twitter_api.py

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import urllib

class Twitter(object):
    def _access_token(self, key, secret):
        r = requests.post('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token',
                          auth=HTTPBasicAuth(key, secret),
                          headers={'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'},
                          data={'grant_type':'client_credentials'})
        return r.json()['access_token']        
    
    def __init__(self, key, secret):
        self.access_token = self._access_token(key, secret)
        
    def search(self, keyword):
        parameter = urllib.urlencode({'src': 'typd', 'q': keyword})
        r = requests.get('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?%s' % parameter,
                         headers={"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % self.access_token})
        return r
    
import os
t = Twitter(os.environ['TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'], os.environ['TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'])
r = t.search('engineer')

import json
print(json.dumps(r.json(), indent=2))