Given a search term or hashtag, return relevant and recent Tweets using the Twitter Search API

GetRelevantTweets.py

# prereqs:
#   Create a Twitter app and generate oauth credentials at https://apps.twitter.com
#   python 2.7
#   pip install oauth2

import oauth2 as oauth
import json
import urllib

CONSUMER_KEY = 'your consumer key'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'your consumer secret'
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'your access token'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'your access token secret'

consumer = oauth.Consumer(key=CONSUMER_KEY, secret=CONSUMER_SECRET)
access_token = oauth.Token(key=ACCESS_TOKEN, secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
client = oauth.Client(consumer, access_token)

searchTerm = '#PaxPrime'      
response, data = client.request('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=' + urllib.quote(searchTerm) + '&result_type=recent')

tweets = json.loads(data)       # dictionary
statuses = tweets['statuses']   
for status in statuses:
    user = status['user']
    print user['screen_name']   # twitter handle without @
    print status['text'] + '\n' # tweet contents