twitter-bot.py

import tweepy, pprint

consumer_key, consumer_secret = "Some consumer key", "Its a secret, shhhhhhhhh :)"
access_token, access_token_secret = "some token", "some access token"
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) # pass consumer key and secret to the OAuthHandler class of /tweepy/tweepy/tree/master/auth.py
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)  # set the access token with method in OAuthHandler class
api = tweepy.API(auth)                    # passing auth variable to API class in /tweepy/tweepy/tree/master/api.py

def get_public_tweets(since=None, max=None, amount=None):
    # :reference: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/home_timeline
        # :allowed_param:'since_id', 'max_id', 'count'
        # fetches resources from https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json
    try:
        public_tweets = api.home_timeline(since_id=since, max_id=max, count=amount)
        tweets = []
        for tweet in public_tweets:
            tweets.append(tweet.text)
        if len(tweets) > 0:
            return tweets
        else:
            return None
    except TypeError as err:
        print err

def get_user_model(user):
    try:
        return api.get_user(user)
    except TypeError as err:
        print err

def unfollow_user(user):
    if user.id:
        try:
            return get_user_model(user).unfollow()
        except TypeError as err:
            print err
    else:
        print 'Invalid Username.'

def follow_user(user):
    if user.id:
        try:
            return get_user_model(user).follow()
        except TypeError as err:
            print err
    else:
        print 'Invalid Username.'

def get_user_tweets(user, amount, filter_for=None):
    target = get_user_model(user)
    if target.id:
        try:
            tweets = []
            if len(filter_for) > 0:
                for tweet in target.timeline(count=amount):
                    for word in filter_for:
                        if word.lower() in tweet.text.split(' '):
                            print tweet.text
                    #if filter_for.lower() in tweet.text.lower():
                    #   print tweet.text
            else:
                for tweet in target.timeline(count=amount):
                    tweets.append(tweet.text)
                return tweets
        except TypeError as err:
            print err
    else:
        print "Invalid Username."

# get_public_tweets()
# nth_position = 50
# get_pos = nth_position - 1

target = "@madflavor"

pprint.pprint(get_user_tweets(target, 1000, filter_for=['Fuck','Shit','Dick','Doctor']))
#for tweet in get_user_model("@madflavor").timeline():
#   if tweet.retweets > 10:
#       print tweet.text
#   else:
#       print "Less than 10 retweets."


# target.unfollow()
# follow_user(joeycoco)
# my_latest_tweet = api.home_timeline()[0]
# print dir( my_latest_tweet )