Twitter API Access

twitter_api.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import simplejson as json

import oauth2 as oauth

# Create your consumer with the proper key/secret.
consumer = oauth.Consumer(key="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
                          secret="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET")

# Create your token with the proper key/secret.
token = oauth.Token(key="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
                    secret="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET")

# Request token URL for Twitter.
rate_limit_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json"

# Create our client.
client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)

# The OAuth Client request works just like httplib2 for the most part.
resp, content = client.request(rate_limit_url, "GET")

# Parse the JSON into a Python dictionary.
data = json.loads(content)

# Print hourly limits.
print "Hourly    => %3d" % (data['hourly_limit'])
print "Remaining => %3d" % (data['remaining_hits'])