sapper1.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
a twitter mining app
note this requires twitter api
"""

import twitter
import json

# these four cannot be empty
CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
OAUTH_TOKEN = ''
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,
        CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)

twitter_api = twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)

print twitter_api

# this is found via a yahoo api
WORLD_WOE_ID = 1
PH_WOE_ID = 23424934

world_trends = twitter_api.trends.place(_id=WORLD_WOE_ID)
ph_trends = twitter_api.trends.place(_id=PH_WOE_ID)

world_trends_set = set ([trend['name']
    for trend in world_trends[0]['trends']])

ph_trends_set = set([trend['name']
    for trend in ph_trends[0]['trends']])

common_trends = world_trends_set.intersection(ph_trends_set)

print json.dumps(world_trends, indent=1)
print
print json.dumps(ph_trends, indent=1)
print common_trends

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