twitter-text-python is a Tweet parser and formatter for Python. Extract users, hashtags, URLs and format as HTML for display.
UPDATE this project is now maintained by Ed Burnett, please go here for the active version: https://github.com/edburnett/twitter-text-python
It is based on twitter-text-java and did pass all the unittests of twitter-text-conformance plus some additional ones. Note that the conformance tests are now behind (easy PR for someone to work on: #5 ):
This version was forked by Ian Ozsvald in January 2013 and released to PyPI, some bugs were fixed, a few minor changes to functionality added: https://github.com/ianozsvald/twitter-text-python
PyPI release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter-text-python/
The original ttp comes from Ivo Wetzel (Ivo's version no longer supported): https://github.com/BonsaiDen/twitter-text-python
Usage:
>>> from ttp import ttp
>>> p = ttp.Parser()
>>> result = p.parse("@ianozsvald, you now support #IvoWertzel's tweet parser! https://github.com/ianozsvald/")
>>> result.reply
'ianozsvald'
>>> result.users
['ianozsvald']
>>> result.tags
['IvoWertzel']
>>> result.urls
['https://github.com/ianozsvald/']
>>> result.html
u'<a href="http://twitter.com/ianozsvald">@ianozsvald</a>, you now support <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IvoWertzel">#IvoWertzel</a>\'s tweet parser! <a href="https://github.com/ianozsvald/">https://github.com/ianozsvald/</a>'
If you need different HTML output just subclass and override the format_* methods.
You can also ask for the span tags to be returned for each entity:
>>> p = ttp.Parser(include_spans=True)
>>> result = p.parse("@ianozsvald, you now support #IvoWertzel's tweet parser! https://github.com/ianozsvald/")
>>> result.urls
[('https://github.com/ianozsvald/', (57, 87))]
To use the shortlink follower:
>>> from ttp import utils >>> # assume that result.urls == ['http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu', u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF'] >>> print utils.follow_shortlinks(result.urls) # pass in list of shortlink URLs {'http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu': [u'http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu', u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21711199#TWEET650562'], u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF': [u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21711199#TWEET650562']} >>> # note that bad shortlink URLs have a key to an empty list (lost/forgotten shortlink URLs don't generate any error)
NOTE this version (Ian's) is no longer maintained, see Ed's active version instead: https://github.com/edburnett/twitter-text-python
pip and easy_install will do the job:
# via: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter-text-python $ pip install twitter-text-python $ python >>> from ttp import ttp >>> ttp.__version__ '1.0.0.2'
- 2013/2/11 1.0.0.2 released to PyPI
- 2013/6/1 1.0.1 new working version, adding comma parse fix (thanks https://github.com/muckrack), used autopep8 to clean the src, added a shortlink expander
Checkout the code via github https://github.com/ianozsvald/twitter-text-python and run tests locally:
$ python ttp/tests.py .................................................................................................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 100 tests in 0.009s OK
The source is available on GitHub, to contribute to the project, fork it on GitHub and send a pull request. Everyone is welcome to make improvements to twp!
- Consider adding capitalised phrase identification
- Consider adding a repeated-char remover (e.g. grrrrrrr->grr)
- Make it 1 line to parse and get a results dict via __init__.py
- Tag the next release
In parent directory on Ian's machine see USE_THIS_FOR_PYPI_RELEASE.txt. The short form:
$ # edit setup.py to bump the version number $ git tag -a v1.0.1 -m 'v1.0.1 release' $ git push origin --tags $ ianozsvald-twitter-text-python $ python setup.py sdist register upload -r http://pypi.python.org/pypi $ # this uses ~/.pypirc with cached login details
MIT
Copyright (c) 2012 Ivo Wetzel.
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