Script to monitor twitter and post to hipchat

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import httplib, json
try:
    from configparser import ConfigParser
except ImportError:
    from ConfigParser import ConfigParser  # ver. < 3.0

# config and globals
tweetMessages = []
configFileName = "config.ini"
config = ConfigParser()
config.read(configFileName)

# get tweets that match the search criteria
headers = {
    "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8", 
    "Authorization": "Basic " + config.get("twitter", "auth")
}
httpServ = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.twitter.com")
httpServ.connect()
httpServ.request("POST", "/oauth2/token", "grant_type=client_credentials", headers)
response = httpServ.getresponse()
if response.status == httplib.OK:
    tokenObj = json.loads(response.read())
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + tokenObj["access_token"]
    }
    httpServ.request("GET", "/1.1/search/tweets.json" + config.get("twitter", "url"), None, headers)
    response = httpServ.getresponse()
    if response.status == httplib.OK:
        tweets = json.loads(response.read())
        config.set("twitter", "url", tweets["search_metadata"]["refresh_url"])

        with open(configFileName, "w+") as dataFile:
            config.write(dataFile)

        for status in tweets["statuses"]:
            text = status["text"]
            if text.startswith("RT") == False:
                screenName = status["user"]["screen_name"]
                name = status["user"]["name"]
                tweetUrl = "https://twitter.com/" + screenName + "/status/" + status["id_str"]
                message = "%(text)s<br /><br />-%(name)s (@%(screenName)s) <br /><a href='%(tweetUrl)s'>%(tweetUrl)s</a>" % locals()
                tweetMessages.append(message)

httpServ.close()

# post the tweets to hipchat
for tweetMsg in tweetMessages:
    url = "/v2/room/" + config.get("hipchat", "room") + "/notification?auth_token=" + config.get("hipchat", "token")
    headers = {
        "Content-type": "application/json"
    }
    message = {
        "notify": config.getboolean("hipchat", "notify"), 
        "message": tweetMsg,
        "color": "yellow"
    }
    httpServ = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.hipchat.com")
    httpServ.connect()
    httpServ.request("POST", url, json.dumps(message), headers)
    response = httpServ.getresponse()
    httpServ.close()