tweetFollowBot

config.py

config = [
    {
	'consumer_key': 'KEY', 
	'consumer_secret': 'SECRET', 
	'access_token': 'TOKEN', 
	'access_token_secret': 'SECRET'
	'user_name': 'YOUR_TWITTER_USER'
    }
]

followBot.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import tweepy
import json
from config import config

consumer_key = config[0]['consumer_key']
consumer_secret = config[0]['consumer_secret']
access_token = config[0]['access_token']
access_token_secret = config[0]['access_token_secret']
username = config[0]['user_name']

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

user = api.get_user(username)
friends = api.friends_ids(username)
#print friends
#for friend in friends:
#	print friend.screen_name
waitList = []

def followUsers(userIDs):
#	limits = api.rate_limit_status()
#	print limits
	for userID in userIDs:
		print '>>> ', userID
		api.create_friendship(user_id=userID, follow=True)
		friends.append(userID)
	waitList = []

# This is the listener, resposible for receiving data
class StdOutListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
	def on_status(self, status):
		print status.text

	def on_data(self, data):
		# Twitter returns data in JSON format - we need to decode it first
		decoded = json.loads(data)
		newUsers = []
		if (decoded['user']['id'] not in friends) and (decoded['user']['id'] not in waitList):
			# Also, we convert UTF-8 to ASCII ignoring all bad characters sent by users
			newUsers.append(decoded['user']['id'])
			print decoded['user']['id'], ': ', decoded['user']['screen_name']
			for mention in decoded['entities']['user_mentions']:
				if (mention['id'] not in friends) and (mention['id'] not in waitList):
					newUsers.append(mention['id'])
					print "\t", mention['id'], ': ', mention['screen_name']
		followUsers(newUsers)
#			print '@%s: %s @ %s' % (decoded['user']['screen_name'], decoded['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'), decoded['coordinates'])
#			print decoded['entities']
#			print ''

	def on_error(self, status):
		print status

	def on_timeout(self):
		print >> sys.stderr, 'Timeout...'
		return True # Don't kill the stream

l = StdOutListener()

print "Searching for users to follow..."

# There are different kinds of streams: public stream, user stream, multi-user streams
# In this example follow #programming tag
# For more details refer to https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis
stream = tweepy.Stream(auth, l)
stream.filter(track=['raspberrypi', 'raspberry_pi']) #, language=['eng']) #locations=[-180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0]