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import ConfigParser
from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI


    

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def get_twitter(config_file):
    """ Read the config_file and construct an instance of TwitterAPI.
    Args:
      config_file ... A config file in ConfigParser format with Twitter credentials
    Returns:
      An instance of TwitterAPI.
    """
    config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    config.read(config_file)
    twitter = TwitterAPI(
                   config.get('twitter', 'consumer_key'),
                   config.get('twitter', 'consumer_secret'),
                   config.get('twitter', 'access_token'),
                   config.get('twitter', 'access_token_secret'))
    return twitter


    

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def robust_request(twitter, resource, params, max_tries=5):
    """ If a Twitter request fails, sleep for 15 minutes.
    Do this at most max_tries times before quitting.
    Args:
      twitter .... A TwitterAPI object.
      resource ... A resource string to request.
      params ..... A parameter dictionary for the request.
      max_tries .. The maximum number of tries to attempt.
    Returns:
      A TwitterResponse object, or None if failed.
    """
    for i in range(max_tries):
        request = twitter.request(resource, params)
        if request.status_code == 200:
            return request
        else:
            print >> sys.stderr, 'Got error:', request.text, '\nsleeping for 15 minutes.'
            sys.stderr.flush()
            time.sleep(60 * 15)

twitter = get_twitter('twitter.cfg')


    

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request = robust_request(twitter, 'search/tweets', {'q': "Hiring, software, developer, chicago", 'count': '10'})
tweets = [t for t in request]
print 'fetched %d tweets' % len(tweets)


    

    




fetched 10 tweets

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# Print 10 tweets.
text = [t['text'] for t in tweets]
print '\n\n'.join(text[:1000])


    

    




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