uses google social api to build lists of twitter friends/followers

google_social_api_twitter_connections.py

import urllib2
import simplejson as json

def google_social_api_friends(screen_name):
""" given a twitter screen name, returns a list of all of their twitter
    friends, using the google social API"""

	url = "http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q=http://www.twitter.com/%s&edo=1&callback=" % (screen_name)
	# parameters edo = 1 means show outbound links.  edi=1 means show inbound
	fetched = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
	friends = json.loads(fetched)
	nodes = friends['nodes']
	friends =  nodes[nodes.keys()[0]]['nodes_referenced'].keys()
	screen_names = [x[x.find('/',10)+1:] for x in friends]
	return screen_names

def google_social_api_followers(screen_name):
""" given a twitter screen name, returns a list of all of their twitter
    followers, using the google social API"""
	url = 'http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q=http://www.twitter.com/%s&edi=1&callback=' % (screen_name)
	# parameters edo = 1 means show outbound links.  edi=1 means show inbound
	fetched = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
	followers = json.loads(fetched)
	nodes = followers['nodes']
	friends =  nodes[nodes.keys()[0]]['nodes_referenced_by'].keys()
	screen_names = [x[x.find('/',10)+1:] for x in friends]
	return screen_names