TwitterMeThis

Python-Library zum Ansprechen der Twitter API. Für alle, die Mstb toll finden, Perl aber nicht mögen ;) Alternativ auch in Ruby.

#TwitterMeThis - Twitter Update Script. Written by Kewagi.
#Usage: tmtUpdate('user','password','here be the message.')

import urllib, urllib2, base64

def tmtUpdate(username,password,message):
	url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
	data = {'status':message}
	post = urllib.urlencode(data)
	base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
	authheader =  "Basic %s" % base64string
	
	req = urllib2.Request(url,post)
	req.add_header("Authorization", authheader)
	
	try:
		handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
	except IOError, e:
		if hasattr(e, 'code'):
			if e.code != 401:
				print 'Something went wrong. (HTTP'+e.code+')'
			else:
				print 'Wrong username/password. (HTTP 401)'
	else:
		return 1