Twitter connections

twitter_con.py

#install twitterapi
#pip install TwitterAPI

#Docs for twittterAPI
#https://github.com/geduldig/TwitterAPI

#Twitter credentials
#https://apps.twitter.com/

#Twitter API docs
#https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public

#Used endpoints in the script:
#https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/list
#https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/followers/list


from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI
import os
import sys
import time

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token_key = ''
access_token_secret = ''
#Bind the credentials to twitterapi
api = TwitterAPI(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token_key, access_token_secret)

#users included in the query
UserList = ['','','']
#write results to the following file
with open('', 'w') as f:
	for TwitterUser in UserList:
		print 'getting info for '+TwitterUser
		#For first page result cursor is -1 or blank, last one is 0
		cursor = -1
		while cursor != 0:
			#Check the endpoints for the possible query params, maximum count is 200
			r = api.request('friends/list', {'screen_name':TwitterUser, 'count':200, 'cursor':cursor})
			for item in r:
					#Error handling
					#https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/response-codes
					if 'users' not in item.keys() and 'message' in item.keys() and 'code' in item.keys():
							if item['code'] != 88:
								print 'Unhandled error' + item['message']
								sys.exit()
							print 'due '+item['message']+' the script sleeps 5min'
							time.sleep(300)
					else:
						if (item != None and 'users' in item.keys() ):
							for user in item['users']:
								#get queried user + he/she following + name + loc +following number of people + her/his followers count + screen name  
								string = TwitterUser +'|following|'+user['name']+'|'+ user['location']+'|'+str(user['followers_count'])+'|'+str(user['friends_count'])+'|'+user['screen_name']
								#write row
								f.write(string.encode('utf8', 'replace')+os.linesep)
								#print string.encode('utf8', 'replace')
						#set the cursor for the next page, aka pagination
						cursor = item['next_cursor']
		cursor = -1
		while cursor != 0:
			r = api.request('followers/list', {'screen_name':TwitterUser, 'count':200, 'cursor':cursor})
			for item in r:
					#Error handling
					#https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/response-codes
					if 'users' not in item.keys() and 'message' in item.keys() and 'code' in item.keys():
							if item['code'] != 88:
								print 'Unhandled error ' + item['message']
								sys.exit()
							print 'due '+item['message']+' the script sleeps 5min'
							time.sleep(300)
					else:
						if (item != None and 'users' in item.keys() ):
							for user in item['users']:
								#get queried user + he/she followers + name + loc +following number of people + her/his followers count + screen name 
								string = TwitterUser +'|follower|'+user['name']+'|'+ user['location']+'|'+str(user['followers_count'])+'|'+str(user['friends_count'])+'|'+user['screen_name']
								#wirte row
								f.write(string.encode('utf8', 'replace')+os.linesep)
						#set the cursor for the next page, aka pagination
						cursor = item['next_cursor']