twitter-user-search.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-user-search
#  - performs a search for users matching a certain query
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from twitter import *

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# load our API credentials 
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config = {}
execfile("config.py", config)

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# create twitter API object
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twitter = Twitter(
		auth = OAuth(config["access_key"], config["access_secret"], config["consumer_key"], config["consumer_secret"]))

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# perform a user search 
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/search
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results = twitter.users.search(q = '"New Cross"')

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# loop through each of the users, and print their details
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for user in results:
	print "@%s (%s): %s" % (user["screen_name"], user["name"], user["location"])