Twitter Search with Python

Twitter search URL for @human_bot and it's response

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40human_bot


{
    "results": [{
        "text": "@human_bot Are you feeling okay? Sounds like you've been smoking some crack with the way you've been talking lately.",
        "to_user_id": 5740619,
        "to_user": "human_bot",
        "from_user": "taboularasa",
        "id": 1306533155,
        "from_user_id": 6667424,
        "iso_language_code": "en",
        "source": "<a href="http:\/\/twitter.com\/">web<\/a>",
        "profile_image_url": "http:\/\/static.twitter.com\/images\/default_profile_normal.png",
        "created_at": "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:11:31 +0000"
    }],
    "since_id": 0,
    "max_id": 1306533155,
    "refresh_url": "?since_id=1306533155&q=%40human_bot",
    "results_per_page": 15,
    "completed_in": 0.030572,
    "page": 1,
    "query": "%40human_bot"
}

twitterSearch.py

from xml.dom import minidom
import sys, time, urllib

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print "Please enter a search"
    raise SystemExit

search = sys.argv[1]

id = 0

while True:  

    url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=20&q=%s&since_id=%s" % (search, id)

    xml = urllib.urlopen(url)

    doc = minidom.parse(xml)

    entries = doc.getElementsByTagName("entry")

    if len(entries) > 0:

        entries.reverse()

        for e in entries:

            title = e.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstChild.data
            pub = e.getElementsByTagName("published")[0].firstChild.data       
            id = e.getElementsByTagName("id")[0].firstChild.data.split(":")[2]
            name = e.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.data.split(" ")[0]

            print "> " + name + ": " + title + " [" + pub + "]"

    time.sleep(3)