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Created July 13, 2011 20:04
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get_twitter_image.py
########################################################################
# TWITTER IMAGE
########################################################################
def get_twitter_image(username):
from urllib2 import urlopen
from xml.dom.minidom import parse as domparse
apiurl = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/%s'
dom = domparse(urlopen(apiurl % username))
twitter_image = ''
for node in dom.getElementsByTagName('profile_image_url'):
#profile_image_url
twitter_image = node._get_lastChild()
return twitter_image.nodeValue
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