Question

How could I make the following call in Python? Pseudocode version:

jsonTwitterResponse = twitter.get(up to max of 3 
                      tweets within 3km of longitude: 7, latitude: 5)
print jsonTwitterResponse

It looks like the geocode API is what I need. I have no idea how to actually code this up though. How would I do the above in actual code?

Answer 1

Here is a sample geocode request:

import urllib, json, pprint

params = urllib.urlencode(dict(q='obama', rpp=10, geocode='37.781157,-122.398720,1mi'))
u = urllib.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?' + params)
j = json.load(u)
pprint.pprint(j)

The full Twitter REST API is described here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api
Also, Twitter has a location search FAQ that may be of interest.