JSON parsing from an API and do something with it

Using the Twitter API as an example. More particularly, we are fetching the most recent tweets containing the #cheese hashtag. See the API doc for more information.

Note: JSONView for firefox and chrome allows json search results to be viewed in the browser

import urllib2, json

url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23cheese'
f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = json.load(f)

for r in data['results']:
    print r['from_user'] + ' says "' + r['text'] + '"'

This is another script that displays tweets. We're going to chmod it (and add a shebang) so that we can use the script more easily.
Chmod it by removing extension and type in the terminal: chmod +x filename
For easy accessibility, you can put it in your username/bin folder.

Execute this script by typing in the terminal:
filename searchquery
(for example: "JSONtwitter cheese")

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, json, urllib2, os
 

f = urllib2.urlopen("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q="+sys.argv[1])
data = json.load(f)

for r in data ["results"]:
	print r["text"]

Exact same story as above, but now espeak read the tweets out aloud:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, json, urllib2, os
 

f = urllib2.urlopen("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q="+sys.argv[1])
data = json.load(f)

os.system("espeak cool")
for r in data ["results"]:
	print r["text"]
	os.system('espeak "'+r["text"].encode("utf-8") + '"')