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Fetch tweet of a given username in command line
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tweet.py
import urllib2
import json
def get_tweets(name):
s = urllib2.urlopen("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q="+name).read()
x = json.loads(s)
for i in range(len(x['results'])):
print "%s.%s--> %s\n" %(i, x['results'][i]['from_user_name'], x['results'][i]['text'])
name = raw_input("Enter the twitter-username get recent tweets: ")
get_tweets(name)
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