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import sqlite3
import urllib
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
TWITTER_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/l/statuses/friends/ACCT.xml'
conn = sqlite3.connect('twdata.db')
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute('''
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Twitter (name TEXT, retrieved INTEGER, friends INTEGER)''')
while True:
acct = raw_input('Enter a Twitter account, or quit: ')
if ( acct == 'quit' ) : break
if ( len(acct) < 1 ) :
cur.execute('SELECT name FROM Twitter WHERE retrieved = 0 LIMIT 1')
try:
acct = cur.fetchone()[0]
except:
print 'No unretrieved Twitter accounts found'
continue
url = TWITTER_URL.replace('ACCT', acct)
print 'Retrieving', url
document = urllib.urlopen (url).read()
tree = ET.fromstring(document)
cur.execute('UPDATE Twitter SET retrieved=1 WHERE name = ?', (acct, ) )
countnew = 0
countold = 0
for user in tree.findall('user'):
friend = user.find('screen_name').text
cur.execute('SELECT friends FROM Twitter WHERE name = ? LIMIT 1',
(friend, ) )
try:
count = cur.fetchone()[0]
cur.execute('UPDATE Twitter SET friends = ? WHERE name = ?',
(count+1, friend) )
countold = countold + 1
except:
cur.execute('''INSERT INTO Twitter (name, retrieved, friends)
VALUES ( ?, 0, 1 )''', ( friend, ) )
countnew = countnew + 1
print 'New accounts=',countnew,' revisited=',countold
conn.commit()
cur.close()