drewconway

#Store network data as plain text file to be analyzed later
twitter_net._name=seed+'_k'+str(k)  # Name the network after the seed and the number of snowball rounds
NX.write_edgelist(twitter_net,path='drewconway_k2.edgelist',delimiter='\t')

drewconway

#Store network data as plain text file to be analyzed later
twitter_net._name=seed+'_k'+str(k)  # Name the network after the seed and the number of snowball rounds
NX.write_edgelist(twitter_net,path='drewconway_k2.edgelist',delimiter='\t')

drewconway

def snowball_search(network,twitter_api,seed_user,cur_round):
# Snowball uses create_egonet to generate new structure
    users=nodes_at_degree(network,cur_round)    # Get all the users at the current round degree
    for u in users:
        time.sleep(5)    # Wait five seconds in between to not hammer Twitter servers (H/T: @amyiris)
        search_results=create_egonet(twitter_api,u)
        network=NX.compose(network,search_results)
    return network

def create_egonet(twitter_api,seed_user):

drewconway

def snowball_build(twitter_api,seed_user,rounds):
# Main network building loop
    for r in range(0,rounds):
        if r<1:
            # Create initial egonet
            net=create_egonet(twitter_api,seed_user)
            if net.size()>99:
                print 'Running this script will exceed your Twitter API rate limit.  You already have enough friends!'
                break
        else:

drewconway

import twitter
import networkx as NX
import time

# Create an authenticated Api object in order to download user data
api_user='your_twitter_id'
api_pswd='your_twitter_password'
api=twitter.Api(username=api_user,password=api_pswd)

# The seed user to be analyzed

drewconway

import twitter
import networkx as NX

# Create an authenticated Api object in order to download user data
api_user='drewconway'
api_pswd='peugeot'
api=twitter.Api(username=api_user,password=api_pswd)

# The seed user to be analyzed
seed='drewconway'