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February 5, 2013 18:51
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Download a list of tweets from Twitter and format them into a PDF for printing - each page shows the full tweet text, screen name and profile image. Python dependencies: * Twitter (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter)
* fpdf (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fpdf/1.7)
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from twitter import * | |
from fpdf import FPDF | |
import urllib | |
pdf=FPDF('L', 'mm', 'A4') | |
pdf.add_font('DejaVu','','DejaVuSans.ttf',uni=True) | |
t = Twitter( | |
auth=OAuth("xxx", | |
"xxx", | |
"xxx", | |
"xxx") | |
) | |
tweetlist = t.favorites.list(count=200) | |
for tweet in tweetlist: | |
screen_name = tweet['user']['screen_name'] | |
tweet_text = tweet['text'] | |
print screen_name + ': ' + tweet_text | |
pdf.add_page() | |
pdf.set_font('DejaVu','',56) | |
pdf.multi_cell(0, 25, tweet_text, align='L') | |
pdf.set_y(-55) | |
pdf.set_x(60) | |
pdf.set_font('DejaVu','',45) | |
pdf.multi_cell(0,30,'@' + screen_name) | |
profile_image_url = tweet['user']['profile_image_url'].replace("_normal", "") | |
avatar_file_name = "avatars/"+screen_name+".jpg" | |
urllib.urlretrieve(profile_image_url, avatar_file_name) | |
pdf.image(avatar_file_name, 10, 160, 40, 40) | |
pdf.output('tweets.pdf','F') |
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