retrieve trending topics from a WOEID location

twitrend

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
twitrend.py

"""

import sys
import os
import tweepy
import json


def main():
    """ main function
    """
    # own OAuth consumer key, secret, and access key and token required 
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
    
    api = tweepy.API(auth, secure = True)
    woeid = 23424977
    retrieved = api.trends_location(woeid)
 
    # gives us full output:
    print retrieved[0]
    # gives us '0':
    print retrieved[0][0]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        main()
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        # actually raise these, for a clean exit
        raise
    except Exception, error:
        # all other exceptions: display the error
        print error
    else:
        pass
    finally:
        # exit cleanly once we've done everything else
        sys.exit(0)