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search_twitter.py
import urllib, urllib2, json
def search_twitter(query, no_retweets=True):
if no_retweets:
# use the negation operator to filter out retweets
query += ' -RT'
url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?%s' % urllib.urlencode({
'q': query,
'lang': 'en', # restrict results to english tweets
'rpp': 100, # return 100 results per page (maximum value)
})
response = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
return response['results']
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