Search tweets using TwitterAPI

search-twitter.py

from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI

# Go to http://dev.twitter.com and create an app.
# The consumer key and secret will be generated for you after
consumer_key = <consumer-key>
consumer_secret = <consumer-secret>

# After the step above, you will be redirected to your app's page.
# Create an access token under the the "Your access token" section
access_token_key = <access-token-key>
access_token_secret = <access-token-secret>


# Create a Twitter client 
twitter = TwitterAPI(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token_key, access_token_secret)

query = {'q' : 'Top Chef', 'lang' : 'es', 'count': 100}
results = twitter.request('search/tweets', query )
for tweet in results.get_iterator():
	print tweet['id'], tweet['text']