twitter-search-polling.py

# poll a search term every 60 seconds and print tweets out
import time
import simplejson
import re
import urllib2
import urllib

last_id = False

while True:
	url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=just%20bought&rpp=100'
	
	if last_id:
		url = url + '&since_id=' + str(last_id)
	
	search = urllib2.urlopen(url)
	search = simplejson.loads(search.read())

	results = search.get('results', [])
	tweet_count = 0
	
	for tweet in results:
		print simplejson.dumps(tweet)
		tweet_count = tweet_count + 1
	
	last_id = search['max_id']
	
	time.sleep(60)