twitter-list-retweets.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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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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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 basic search 
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search
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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"])