tweetstorm.py (for ios pythonista. Obsolete, use newer version a gist or two in)

tweetstorm-old.py

from dialogs import text_dialog
import twitter 
from time import sleep
acct = twitter.get_all_accounts()[0] 
# if there are multiple accounts this will need to be changed to get different account. I only have one account so don't care.
# right now I also don't care to have authentication error handling, will need to experiment with unauthenticated devices to figure out what it throws.

def numerate_tweets(tweetlist):
    numtweets = len(tweetlist)
    newoutlist = []
    for index, tweet in enumerate(tweetlist):
        numerizer = " (%d/%d)" % (index + 1, numtweets)
        newoutlist.append(tweet.strip() + numerizer)
    return newoutlist

def make_tweetstorm_list():
    text = text_dialog()
    if text: # bail on cancel
        if len(text) > 140:
            words = text.split(" ")
            outlist = []
            thistweet = ""
            # will reserve ten characters for numbers, should handle reasonable-length tweetstorms.
            for w in words:
                if len(thistweet + " " + w) > 130:
                    outlist.append(thistweet)
                    thistweet = w.strip()
                else:
                    thistweet = thistweet + " " + w.strip()
            outlist.append(thistweet)
            tweetlist = numerate_tweets(outlist)
        else:
            tweetlist = [text]
        return tweetlist
    print("tweetstorm cancelled!")
    return None

def post_tweet_list_as_replies(tweetlist):
    if tweetlist:
        firstpost = twitter.post_tweet(acct, tweetlist[0])
        if len(tweetlist) > 1:
            reply_id = firstpost["id_str"]
            params = {"in_reply_to_status_id": reply_id}
            newlist = tweetlist[1:]
            for tweet in newlist:
                sleep(1) # to avoid pissing off the twitter api gods.  might still run into rate-limit issues for really big tweetstorms
                twitter.post_tweet(acct, tweet, params)
        return firstpost # so it can be printed or saved or url-extracted or something in bigger scripts.
    else:
        print("you didn't give me any tweets to post, sorry.")
        return None

def tweetstorm():
    tweetlist = make_tweetstorm_list()
    post_tweet_list_as_replies(tweetlist)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    tweetstorm()