twitter-list-retweets.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

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# twitter-retweets
#  - print who has retweeted tweets from a given user's timeline
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from twitter import *

user = "ideoforms"

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# load our API credentials 
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import sys

sys.path.append(".")
import 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 basic search 
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline
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results = twitter.statuses.user_timeline(screen_name=user)

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# loop through each of my statuses, and print its content
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for status in results:
    print("@%s %s" % (user, status["text"]))

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    # do a new query: who has RT'd this tweet?
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    retweets = twitter.statuses.retweets._id(_id=status["id"])
    for retweet in retweets:
        print(" - retweeted by %s" % (retweet["user"]["screen_name"]))