Get most used hashtags from a Twitter profile's last 200 tweets.

profiletags.py

import json
from urllib import urlencode
from urllib2 import urlopen
from collections import OrderedDict

profiletags = {}
api = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?'

# TODO: take options from CLIparameters
params = {
        'include_entities': 'true', # required hashtag data
        'screen_name': 'barraponto', # might change, user_id is more reliable
        'count': '200', # 200 is the maximum value
        'trim_user': 'true' # just to make things lighter
        }

request = urlopen(api + urlencode(params))
data = json.loads(request.read())

for tweet in data:
    for hashtag in tweet['entities']['hashtags']:
        hashtag = hashtag['text']
        if hashtag in profiletags:
            profiletags[hashtag] = profiletags[hashtag] + 1
        else:
            profiletags[hashtag] = 1

for hashtag, count in OrderedDict(sorted(profiletags.items(), key=lambda t: t[1], reverse=True)).iteritems():
    print '{0}: {1}'.format(hashtag, count)