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at December 2, 2010 18:09 by vetri02


Initial Code
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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Initial Description
Uses YQL's Rest query (select * from twitter.user.timeline where id='vetri02')

Initial Title
Twitter feed on Python using YQL and BeautifulSoup

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Initial Language
Python