Prosaic_Twitter.py

# internal
import re
import subprocess

# external
import twython
# prosaic, obviously

twitter = twython.Twython(
    ENV['API_KEY'],
    ENV['API_SECRET'],
    ENV['ACCESS_TOKEN'],
    ENV['TOKEN_SECRET'],)

def remove_RTs(string):
    return re.sub(r'\bRT\b', '', string, flags=re.IGNORECASE)

def remove_mentions(string):
    return re.sub(r'@[A-Z0-9\_]*', '', string, flags=re.IGNORECASE)

def remove_links(string):
    return re.sub(r'http.*\b', '', string)

timeline = [str(x['text']) for x in  twitter.get_home_timeline(count=200, trim_user=True)]
filename = 'words/{}.txt'.format(twitter.verify_credentials()['screen_name'])

with open(filename, 'w') as f:
    for line in timeline:
        line = remove_RTs(line)
        line = remove_mentions(line)
        line = remove_links(line)
        f.write(line+'\n')

subprocess.call('prosaic corpus loadfile {}'.format(filename), shell=True)
subprocess.call('prosaic poem new')