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at December 2, 2010 18:09 by vetri02
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import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
var = raw_input("Enter your Twitter id: ")
print "Tweets of", var
er = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20twitter.user.timeline%20where%20id%3D'"
fg = "'&diagnostics=true&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys"

zx = er+var+fg

page = urllib2.urlopen(zx)
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(page)
tweet = soup.findAll('text')
for twt in tweet:
    print twt.string
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Uses YQL's Rest query (select * from twitter.user.timeline where id='vetri02')

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Twitter feed on Python using YQL and BeautifulSoup

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Python