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Script to check if a twitter user posted in previous week.
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#script to see whether a user is 'active' during the previous 7 days | |
#I had a large list of Twitter users. I wanted to see if they remained 'active' from one week to the next | |
# active means they posted a message at least once during the previous 7 days | |
#Requires DeWitt Clinton's "Python-Twitter" api wrapper | |
# some nice date-handling stuff in here | |
# In a seperate script, I iterated thru a list of Twitter users, passing each in turn into this script | |
import twitter | |
import AuthDetails #file containing a valid Twitter username/password | |
import datetime | |
def main(thisuser): #gets user from calling script | |
api=Authenticate() | |
if thisuser.GetStatus()==None: #means user has never tweeted | |
return 3 | |
else: | |
date=GetLatestTweetDate(thisuser) | |
dayssincetweet=AmtDaysSinceTweet(date) | |
status1=CheckIfActive(dayssincetweet) | |
if status1==1: | |
#print thisuser.screen_name | |
#print"its active" | |
else: | |
#print"not active" | |
#print str(status1) | |
return status1 #returns either 'active' or 'notactive' | |
def GetLatestTweetDate(thisuser): | |
status=thisuser.GetStatus() #returns latest tweet obj | |
longdate=status.GetCreatedAt() | |
#longdate is a string. cut it down to Month+Date+Year... | |
date1=longdate[4:10] | |
date2=longdate[-4:] | |
strshortdate= date1+" "+date2 | |
#now convert this string into a datetime object using strptime | |
shortdate=datetime.datetime.strptime(strshortdate, "%b %d %Y") | |
return shortdate | |
def AmtDaysSinceTweet(date): | |
#todays date | |
today=datetime.datetime.today() | |
sincetweet=today-date #returns a datetime.timedelta object(dd, m,s,millisecs...) | |
amtdays=int(sincetweet.days) #amt of days in timedelta | |
print amtdays," since tweet\n" | |
return amtdays | |
def CheckIfActive(dayssincetweet): | |
#user is 'active' if they've tweeted in past 7 days | |
if dayssincetweet>7: | |
return 0 | |
else: | |
print"active" | |
return 1 | |
def Authenticate(): | |
#authenticate session | |
api=twitter.Api(username=AuthDetails.username, password=AuthDetails.password) | |
return api | |
if __name__ =="__main__": | |
main(thisuser) |
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