Get Twitter profile to display in template

Question

I am using the code below to show a user's Twitter profile on the page. In the example below I'm trying to show the profile for the username 'dogculture'. Why isn't this working?

__init__.py

def get_user_profile(twitter_api, screen_names=None, user_ids=None):
    items_to_info = {}
    items = screen_names or user_ids

    while len(items) > 0:
        # Process 100 items at a time per the API specifications for /users/lookup.
        items_str = ','.join([str(item) for item in items[:100]])
        items = items[100:]

        if screen_names:
            response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, screen_name=items_str)
        else: # user_ids
            response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, user_id=items_str)

        for user_info in response:
            if screen_names:
                items_to_info[user_info['screen_name']] = user_info
            else: # user_ids
                items_to_info[user_info['id']] = user_info

    return items_to_info

profile.html

{% block body %}
<body>
<div class="container">
twitter_api = oauth_login()
response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, screen_name="dogculture")
print json.dumps(response, indent=1)
</div>
</body>
{% endblock %}

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '15 at 15:01

You need to write a view to get the Twitter data and render the template. You would pass the profile data to the template, not write Python code in it.

@app.route('/profile/<username>')
def profile(username):
    twitter_api = oauth_login()
    profiles = get_user_profile(twitter_api, screen_names=(username,))
    profile = profiles.get(username)

    if profile is None:
        abort(404)

    return render_template('profile.html', profile=profile)

{% block body %}
Render the contents of the profile dict here.
For example, here's the username.
{{ profile['username'] }}
{% endblock %}

Get Twitter profile to display in template

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