twitter client

client.py

# run
# pip install requests
# to install dependency

# If you need some help debugging your regexes,
# check your regex here: https://regex101.com/

# Documentation for regex's are here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
# Hint: you can use re.findall(p, text) to get all matches

import requests
import json
import re

from collections import Counter

def getTweets():
    url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=place%3A300bcc6e23a88361%20filter%3Asafe%20%3A%29&count=100'
    r = requests.get(url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN%2FTwAAAAAAAsSph2PC2NVjZgP0A%2FWjjR2ajCuQ%3DydfRjZjxYmiEPynaEslzjcdvo6uJ39rUl9ZoP92mH8Fskh5wha'})
    j = json.loads(r.text)

    return j
    
# get complete response
print(getTweets())

# match against 1st tweet
p = re.compile(ur'(#\w+)')
test_str = getTweets()["statuses"][0]["text"]
print(re.findall(p, test_str))


def getHashtags(tweets):
    # regex to get hashtags
    p = re.compile(ur'#(\w+)')

    results = []
    for status in tweets["statuses"]:
        matches = re.findall(p, status["text"])
        results.extend(matches)

    return results

tweets = getTweets()
results = getHashtags(tweets)
c = Counter(results)
print(c.most_common())