Python script to show twitter updates with pyinotify

heise-notify.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import pynotify
import twitter
import time

last_id = {}
users = ['heiseonline']

def notify(title, text):
    notification = pynotify.Notification(title, text)
    notification.show()

def get_tweets(user):
    if last_id.has_key(user):
        s = api.GetUserTimeline(users, since_id = last_id[user])
        if s:
            last_id[user] = s[0].id
        return s
    else:
        s = api.GetUserTimeline(user)
        last_id[user] = s[0].id
        return s[0:4]

if __name__=='__main__':
    pynotify.init('heise-notify')
    api = twitter.Api()
    while True:
        for user in users:
            t = get_tweets(user)
            for s in t:
                notify("@%s" % user, s.text)
        time.sleep(5)

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