import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error import twurl import ssl # https://apps.twitter.com/ # Create App and get the four strings, put them in hidden.py TWITTER_URL = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json' # Ignore SSL certificate errors ctx = ssl.create_default_context() ctx.check_hostname = False ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE while True: print('') acct = input('Enter Twitter Account:') if (len(acct) < 1): break url = twurl.augment(TWITTER_URL, {'screen_name': acct, 'count': '2'}) print('Retrieving', url) connection = urllib.request.urlopen(url, context=ctx) data = connection.read().decode() print(data[:250]) headers = dict(connection.getheaders()) # print headers print('Remaining', headers['x-rate-limit-remaining'])