Python twitter bot issue

Question

Trying to run this twitter python bot. It just basicly needs to setup the tokens (already seted) and hashtag to search and favorite. I'm newbie into coding so i really dunno where i'm going here. Just cloned this code from github and trying to run it. Running python 2.7.2

"""

A simple Twitter bot using the Twitter Python library that finds users who tweet about "Christmas gift ideas,"
favorites their tweet, follows the users and sends them a friendly tweet with Amazon links of popular gift ideas.

"""

import urllib
import simplejson
import twitter

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token_key = ''
access_token_secret = ''

def searchTweets(query):
        search = urllib.urlopen("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q="+query)
        dict = simplejson.loads(search.read())
        return dict

api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = 'consumer_key', consumer_secret = 'consumer_secret', access_token_key = 'access_token_key', access_token_secret = 'access_token_secret')
tweets = searchTweets("hashtag")
msg = "Tweet message"

for i in range(len(tweets["results"])):
        tweeter = tweets["results"][i]["from_user"]
        status = twitter.Api.GetStatus(api, tweets["results"][i]["id"])
        api.CreateFavorite(status)
        api.CreateFriendship(tweeter)
        api.PostUpdate('@' + tweeter + ' ' + msg)

I've changed the tokens info and stuff, but i'm getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TwitterBot.py", line 26, in <module>
    for i in range(len(tweets["results"])):
KeyError: 'results'

What am I doing wrong? I'm using python-twitter module installed with pip.

Answer 1

There is no key `'results' in the dictionary 'tweets'.

To find out what there is, add this line of code before the for loop:

print tweets

and it will print something like this:

result = {"items": [{ "owner": { "reputation": 1480, "user_id": 2254048 },"is_accepted": false,"score": 0, "answer_id": 32548557, "question_id": 32546733}]}

Here, there is a nested dictionary in a nested list. That could be your issue. In this example you need to use this code:

print result["items"][0]["owner"]["user_id"]

just to view the user ID of 2254048. Check that twitter isn't giving something like that, and ensure you are a) referencing a key that exists and b) if it's nested, you're referencing it with the other nested items correctly.