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I was playing around with twitter library on python, I actually ended up writing a bot , the bot actually has a list of hashtags within it and when you run the bot it goes to twitter search for the tweets , favorites the tweet and follow that person.
Why would someone want to do that , well just because you can.
So I was actually looking into this library for python and twitter interface : Python-Twitter . The only problem I faced was with documentation but it is somewhat gets clear when you clone it and run the index file in doc folder.
I will try to walk you through the code, I maintained a list of favorite hashtags :
favorite_hashtags = ['#mozilla','#mozlove','#python','#jnaapti','#msaan']
Now , with this hashtags I wrote a function to accept status object as a parameter and scrape the user id, user name and various info from the status objects.
def follow_user_hashtags_fav(status_object): user_dict = dict() user_dict = status_object.AsDict() user_name = user_dict['user']['name'] user_id = user_dict['user']['id'] api.CreateFavorite(status_object) print 'You favorited this tweet : \n',status_object.text api.CreateFriendship(user_id) print 'You are following : \n',user_name
In here the function that favorites the tweet and that follows the user is very clear. The trick is to get user id , which we are doing by getting a dictionary out of status object.
Now the only thing left is iterating through the hashtags:
for hashtag in favorite_hashtags: print 'For hashtag : \t', hashtag list_statuses = api.GetSearch(hashtag) for status in list_statuses: try: follow_user_hashtags_fav(status) except twitter.error.TwitterError: print "Some Error may be you favorited it twice or you are following yourself"
and voila that how it works.
Feel free to fork and use it on my repo: Tweet-Bot
Well you can see the script working here :
