hd1/tweetSharedLinks

import argparse
from backports.lzma import LZMAFile
import csv
import datetime
import time
import tweepy

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Links report on twitter -- some basic metrics as to how many links I shared today')
parser.add_argument('API_KEY', action='store', metavar='API_KEY', help='Twitter API key')
parser.add_argument('API_SECRET', action='store', metavar='API_SECRET', help='Twitter API secret')
parser.add_argument('ACCESS_TOKEN', action='store', metavar='ACCESS_TOKEN', help='Twitter access token')
parser.add_argument('ACCESS_SECRET', action='store', metavar='ACCESS_SECRET', help='Twitter access secret')
parsed = parser.parse_args()

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(parsed.API_KEY, parsed.API_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(parsed.ACCESS_TOKEN, parsed.ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

tweets = []

today = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(hours=24)
today.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
today = today.timetuple()

def links_today(link):
    date_of_link = time.localtime(long(link[0]))
    return today < date_of_link

with LZMAFile('/home/ec2-user/public_html/links.csv.xz') as fin:
    reader = csv.reader(fin.readlines()[1:])
    tweets = filter(links_today, reader)

status = 'In the last 24 hours, @hdiwan sent {0} links to {1} unique recipients.'.format(len(tweets[1]), len(set(tweets[2])))

if len(tweets) != 0:
    api.update_status(status=status)