Parsing Twitter JSON object in Python

Question

I am trying to download tweets from twitter.

I have used python and Tweepy for this. Though I am new to both Python and Twitter API.

My Python script is as follow: #!usr/bin/python

#import modules
import sys
import tweepy
import json

#global variables
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
token_key = ''
token_secret = ''

#Main function
def main():
    print sys.argv[0],'starts'
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(token_key, token_secret)
    print 'Connected to Twitter'
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    if not api.test():
        print 'Twitter API test failed'

    print 'Experiment with cursor'
    print 'Get search method returns json objects'

   json_search = api.search(q="football")
   #json.loads(json_search())
   print  json_search


#Standard boilerplate to call main function if this file runs

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I am getting result as follows:

[<tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a0934c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a0986c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a096ec>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0xb76d8ccc>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a09ccc>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a0974c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a0940c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x99fdfcc>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x99fdfec>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08cec>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08f4c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08eec>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08a4c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08c0c>, <tweepy.models.SearchResult object at 0x9a08dcc>]

Now I am confused how to extract tweets from this information? I tried to use json.loads method on this data. But it gives me error as JSON expects string or buffer. Example code would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

take my code for tweepy:

def twitterfeed():
   auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
   auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
   api = tweepy.API(auth)
   statuses = tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(20)
   data = [s.text.encode('utf8') for s in statuses]
   print data