Twitter search history

twittersearcher.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
"""Twitter's "advanced" search can't seem to find a users tweet from more
than a few days ago, so I wrote this simple function to do so.

Not good code, not very efficient, only finds the most recent occurrence of
the word.. but it worked for what I needed
"""
import urllib
import simplejson as json

def searchTwitterUser(user, term):
    u = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=%s&count=200&page=%%s" % user
    for x in range(100):
        print "Getting page %s" % x
        src = urllib.urlopen(u % x).read()
        print "done"
        tweets = json.loads(src)
        for t in tweets:
            if term.lower() in t['text'].lower():
                return t

print searchTwitterUser("_dbr", "someterm")