twitterspawn

Twitterspawn

Asynchronous, concurrent requests to the Twitter REST API, that respect Twitter's rate limits, using gevent and requests.

See example.py for a working example.

Usage

Basically:

import twitterspawn

# Define callback (can define 1 per request)
def callback(response, worker):
    print "Got", response, "from", worker

# Add requests + callbacks
twitterspawn.add_request("https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json", 
                         dict(params=dict(screen_name="steveWINton")),
                         callback)
twitterspawn.add_request("https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json", 
                         dict(params=dict(screen_name="twitter")),
                         callback)
twitterspawn.add_request("https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json", 
                         dict(params=dict(screen_name="catbinlady")),
                         callback)

# Add workers
twitterspawn.add_worker(access_token="YOUR_FIRST_ACCESS_TOKEN", 
                        access_token_secret="YOUR_FIRST_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET", 
                        consumer_key="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY", 
                        consumer_secret="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET")
twitterspawn.add_worker(access_token="YOUR_NEXT_ACCESS_TOKEN", 
                        access_token_secret="YOUR_NEXT_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET", 
                        consumer_key="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY", 
                        consumer_secret="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET")
# ...add as many more workers as required...
twitterspawn.add_worker(access_token="YOUR_LAST_ACCESS_TOKEN", 
                        access_token_secret="YOUR_LAST_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET", 
                        consumer_key="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY", 
                        consumer_secret="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET")

# Go!
twitterspawn.go()

See also example.py for a working example.

Installation

Simply:

$ pip install twitterspawn

Contact

@steveWINton.