Tango - Easy Twitter utilities for Django-based applications ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a Django user, I've often wanted a way to easily implement Twitter scraping calls in my applications. I could write them from scratch using the already existing (and quite excellent) library called "Python-Twitter" (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/)... However, Python-Twitter doesn't (currently) handle some things well, such as using Twitter's Search API. I've found myself wanting a largely drop-in solution for this (and other) problems... Thus, we now have Tango. Installation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can install this like any other Django-app; just throw it in as a new app, register it in your settings as an "Installed App", and sync the models. Tango requires (much like Python-Twitter, because they had the right idea :D) a library called "simplejson" - Django should include this by default, but if you need the library for any reason, you can grab it at the following link: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson Tango also works well as a standalone Python library, so feel free to use it however you like. Example Use ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An extremely generic, and somewhat useless, demo is below. Instantiate your class by passing in a Twitter username, then all functions will come off of that. Results are returned as a list. testList = tango("ryanmcgrath") newTestList = testList.getSearchTimeline("b", "20") for testTweet in newTestList: print testTweet Questions, Comments, etc? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to note that Tango is *not* like other Twitter libraries - we don't handle authentication or anything of the sort (yet); there are already battle-tested solutions out there for both Basic Auth and OAuth. This isn't production ready quite yet. Tango will (hopefully) be compatible with Python 3; as it stands, I think it might be now, I've just not had the time to check over it. My hope is that Tango is so plug-and-play that you'd never *have* to ask any questions, but if you feel the need to contact me for this (or other) reasons, you can hit me up at ryan@venodesigns.net.