Twitter public timeline proxy for testing -- depends on flask

twproxy.py

import urllib2, json, random, sys
from flask import Flask, request, make_response
app = Flask(__name__)

TIMELINE_DATA = None

@app.route('/public_timeline.json')
def public_timeline():
    out = json.dumps(sorted(TIMELINE_DATA, key=lambda x: random.random()))
    if 'callback' in request.args:
        resp = make_response('%s(%s)' % (request.args['callback'], out))
        resp.mimetype = 'text/javascript'
    else:
        resp = make_response(out)
        resp.mimetype = 'application/json'
    return resp

if __name__ == '__main__':
    timeline_file = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') if len(sys.argv) > 1 else urllib2.urlopen("https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/public_timeline.json")
    TIMELINE_DATA = json.loads(timeline_file.read())
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8888, debug=True)