Get and save Twitter Trends

tw_trends.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json


def get_trend(keyword, rpp=1):
    URL = 'https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%s&rpp=%d'
    data = urllib.urlopen(URL % (keyword, rpp)).read()
    data_as_python = json.loads(data)
    results = data_as_python['results']
    tweets = []
    for r in results:
        tweets.append({
            'tweet': r['text'],
            'usuario': r['from_user_name'],
            'postado_em': r['created_at']
        })
    return tweets


def get_and_save_trend(filename, keyword, rpp=1, indent=None):
    tweets = get_trend(keyword, rpp)
    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
        tweets_as_json = json.dumps(tweets, indent=indent)
        f.write(tweets_as_json.encode('utf-8'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_trend('python')
    get_and_save_trend('trends_python.json', 'python', rpp=10, indent=2)