twitter/api.py

   1
   2 from base64 import b64encode
   3 from urllib import urlencode
   4
   5 import httplib
   6
   7 from exceptions import Exception
   8
   9 def _py26OrGreater():
  10     import sys
  11     return sys.hexversion > 0x20600f0
  12
  13 if _py26OrGreater():
  14     import json
  15 else:
  16     import simplejson as json
  17
  18 class TwitterError(Exception):
  19     """
  20     Exception thrown by the Twitter object when there is an
  21     error interacting with twitter.com.
  22     """
  23     pass
  24
  25 class TwitterCall(object):
  26     def __init__(
  27         self, username, password, format, domain, uri="",
  28         agent="Python Twitter Tools"
  29     ):
  30         self.username = username
  31         self.password = password
  32         self.format = format
  33         self.domain = domain
  34         self.uri = uri
  35         self.agent = agent
  36     def __getattr__(self, k):
  37         try:
  38             return object.__getattr__(self, k)
  39         except AttributeError:
  40             return TwitterCall(
  41                 self.username, self.password, self.format, self.domain,
  42                 self.uri + "/" + k, self.agent
  43             )
  44     def __call__(self, **kwargs):
  45         method = "GET"
  46         if (self.uri.endswith('new')
  47             or self.uri.endswith('update')
  48             or self.uri.endswith('create')
  49             or self.uri.endswith('destroy')):
  50             method = "POST"
  51             if (self.agent):
  52                 kwargs["source"] = self.agent
  53
  54         encoded_kwargs = urlencode(kwargs.items())
  55         argStr = ""
  56         if kwargs and (method == "GET"):
  57             argStr = "?" + encoded_kwargs
  58
  59         headers = {}
  60         if (self.agent):
  61             headers["X-Twitter-Client"] = self.agent
  62         if (self.username):
  63             headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + b64encode("%s:%s" %(
  64                 self.username, self.password))
  65         if method == "POST":
  66             headers["Content-type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  67             headers["Content-length"] = len(encoded_kwargs)
  68
  69         c = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.domain)
  70         try:
  71             c.putrequest(method, "%s.%s%s" %(
  72                 self.uri, self.format, argStr))
  73             for item in headers.iteritems():
  74                 c.putheader(*item)
  75             c.endheaders()
  76             if method == "POST":
  77                 c.send(encoded_kwargs)
  78             r = c.getresponse()
  79
  80             if (r.status == 304):
  81                 return []
  82             elif (r.status != 200):
  83                 raise TwitterError("Twitter sent status %i: %s" %(
  84                     r.status, r.read()))
  85             if "json" == self.format:
  86                 return json.loads(r.read())
  87             else:
  88                 return r.read()
  89         finally:
  90             c.close()
  91
  92 class Twitter(TwitterCall):
  93     """
  94     The minimalist yet fully featured Twitter API class.
  95
  96     Get RESTful data by accessing members of this class. The result
  97     is decoded python objects (lists and dicts).
  98
  99     The Twitter API is documented here:
 100
 101         http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
 102         http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation
 103
 104     Examples::
 105
 106       twitter = Twitter("hello@foo.com", "password123")
 107
 108       # Get the public timeline
 109       twitter.statuses.public_timeline()
 110
 111       # Get a particular friend's timeline
 112       twitter.statuses.friends_timeline(id="billybob")
 113
 114       # Also supported (but totally weird)
 115       twitter.statuses.friends_timeline.billybob()
 116
 117       # Send a direct message
 118       twitter.direct_messages.new(
 119           user="billybob",
 120           text="I think yer swell!")
 121
 122     Searching Twitter::
 123
 124         twitter_search = Twitter(domain="search.twitter.com")
 125
 126         # Find the latest search trends
 127         twitter_search.trends()
 128
 129         # Search for the latest News on #gaza
 130         twitter_search.search(q="#gaza")
 131
 132     Using the data returned::
 133
 134       Twitter API calls return decoded JSON. This is converted into
 135       a bunch of Python lists, dicts, ints, and strings. For example,
 136
 137       x = twitter.statuses.public_timeline()
 138
 139       # The first 'tweet' in the timeline
 140       x[0]
 141
 142       # The screen name of the user who wrote the first 'tweet'
 143       x[0]['user']['screen_name']
 144
 145     Getting raw XML data::
 146
 147       If you prefer to get your Twitter data in XML format, pass
 148       format="xml" to the Twitter object when you instantiate it:
 149
 150       twitter = Twitter(format="xml")
 151
 152       The output will not be parsed in any way. It will be a raw string
 153       of XML.
 154     """
 155     def __init__(self, email=None, password=None, format="json", domain="twitter.com"):
 156         """
 157         Create a new twitter API connector using the specified
 158         credentials (email and password). Format specifies the output
 159         format ("json" (default) or "xml").
 160         """
 161         if (format not in ("json", "xml")):
 162             raise TwitterError("Unknown data format '%s'" %(format))
 163         TwitterCall.__init__(self, email, password, format, domain)
 164
 165 __all__ = ["Twitter", "TwitterError"]