from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError OAUTH_TOKEN = 'foo' OAUTH_SECRET = 'bar' CONSUMER_KEY = 'baz' CONSUMER_SECRET = 'bat' t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)) def search_tweets(q, count=100, max_id=None): return t.search.tweets(q=q, result_type='recent', count=count, lang="en", max_id=max_id) def favorites_create(tweet): try: result = t.favorites.create(_id=tweet['id']) print "Favorited: %s, %s" % (result['text'], result['id']) return result except TwitterHTTPError as e: print "Error: ", e return None def search_and_fav(q, count=100, max_id=None): result = search_tweets(q, count, max_id) first_id = result['statuses'][0]['id'] last_id = result['statuses'][-1]['id'] success = 0 for t in result['statuses']: if favorites_create(t) is not None: success += 1 print "Favorited total: %i of %i" % (success, len(result['statuses'])) print "First id %s last id %s" % (first_id, last_id)