twitter-list-lists.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-list-lists
#  - lists the lists owned by each of a list of users
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from twitter import *

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# the list of users that we want to examine
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users = [ "ideoforms", "GoldsmithsLEU", "mocost" ]

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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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# for each of our users in turn...
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import pprint
for user in users:
	print "@%s" % (user)

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	# ...retrieve all of the lists they own.
	# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/lists
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	result = twitter.lists.list(screen_name = user)
	for list in result:
		print " - %s (%d members)" % (list["name"], list["member_count"])