from base64 import b64encode
from urllib import urlencode
-import httplib
+import urllib2
from exceptions import Exception
"""
pass
+# These actions require POST http requests instead of GET
+_POST_ACTIONS = [
+ "create", "update", "destroy", "new", "follow", "leave",
+ ]
+
class TwitterCall(object):
- def __init__(self, username, password, format, uri=""):
+ def __init__(
+ self, username, password, format, domain, uri="", agent=None):
self.username = username
self.password = password
self.format = format
+ self.domain = domain
self.uri = uri
+ self.agent = agent
def __getattr__(self, k):
try:
return object.__getattr__(self, k)
except AttributeError:
return TwitterCall(
- self.username, self.password, self.format,
- self.uri + "/" + k)
+ self.username, self.password, self.format, self.domain,
+ self.uri + "/" + k, self.agent)
def __call__(self, **kwargs):
+ uri = self.uri
method = "GET"
- if (self.uri.endswith('new')
- or self.uri.endswith('update')
- or self.uri.endswith('create')):
- method = "POST"
+ for action in _POST_ACTIONS:
+ if self.uri.endswith(action):
+ method = "POST"
+ if (self.agent):
+ kwargs["source"] = self.agent
+ break
+
+ id = kwargs.pop('id', None)
+ if id:
+ uri += "/%s" %(id)
+
+ encoded_kwargs = urlencode(kwargs.items())
argStr = ""
+ argData = None
+ encoded_kwargs = urlencode(kwargs.items())
if kwargs:
- argStr = "?" + urlencode(kwargs.items())
- c = httplib.HTTPConnection("twitter.com")
+ if (method == "GET"):
+ argStr = "?%s" %(encoded_kwargs)
+ else:
+ argData = encoded_kwargs
+
+ headers = {}
+ if (self.agent):
+ headers["X-Twitter-Client"] = self.agent
+ if (self.username):
+ headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + b64encode("%s:%s" %(
+ self.username, self.password))
+
+ req = urllib2.Request(
+ "http://%s/%s.%s%s" %(self.domain, self.uri, self.format, argStr),
+ argData, headers
+ )
try:
- c.putrequest(method, "/%s.%s%s" %(
- self.uri, self.format, argStr))
- if (self.username):
- c.putheader(
- "Authorization", "Basic " + b64encode("%s:%s" %(
- self.username, self.password)))
- if (method == "POST"):
- # TODO specify charset
- pass
- c.endheaders()
- r = c.getresponse()
- if (r.status == 304):
+ handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+ if "json" == self.format:
+ return json.loads(handle.read())
+ else:
+ return handle.read()
+ except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
+ if (e.code == 304):
return []
- elif (r.status != 200):
- raise TwitterError("Twitter sent status %i: %s" %(
- r.status, r.read()))
- if ("json" == self.format):
- return json.loads(r.read())
else:
- return r.read()
- finally:
- c.close()
-
+ raise TwitterError(
+ "Twitter sent status %i for URL: %s.%s using parameters: (%s)\ndetails: %s" %(
+ e.code, uri, self.format, encoded_kwargs, e.fp.read()))
+
class Twitter(TwitterCall):
"""
The minimalist yet fully featured Twitter API class.
is decoded python objects (lists and dicts).
The Twitter API is documented here:
- http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation
+
+ http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
+ http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation
Examples::
user="billybob",
text="I think yer swell!")
+ Searching Twitter::
+
+ twitter_search = Twitter(domain="search.twitter.com")
+
+ # Find the latest search trends
+ twitter_search.trends()
+
+ # Search for the latest News on #gaza
+ twitter_search.search(q="#gaza")
+
Using the data returned::
Twitter API calls return decoded JSON. This is converted into
The output will not be parsed in any way. It will be a raw string
of XML.
"""
- def __init__(self, email=None, password=None, format="json"):
+ def __init__(
+ self, email=None, password=None, format="json", domain="twitter.com",
+ agent=None):
"""
Create a new twitter API connector using the specified
credentials (email and password). Format specifies the output
"""
if (format not in ("json", "xml")):
raise TwitterError("Unknown data format '%s'" %(format))
- TwitterCall.__init__(self, email, password, format)
+ TwitterCall.__init__(self, email, password, format, domain, "", agent)
-__all__ = ["Twitter"]
+__all__ = ["Twitter", "TwitterError"]