I am trying to connect to twitter api using python-twitter libary. Here is my code:
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
consumer_secret='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
access_token_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
access_token_secret='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx')
users=api.UsersLookup(screen_name=['twitter API'])
print users[0]
json.loads(users)
I need to parse this json reponse. However when I use json library I get the error expected string or buffer
[
{
"name": "Twitter API",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
"follow_request_sent": false,
"id_str": "6253282",
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
"is_translator": false,
"default_profile": true,
"favourites_count": 24,
"contributors_enabled": true,
"url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"id": 6253282,
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"listed_count": 10713,
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"lang": "en",
"followers_count": 1198334,
"protected": false,
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"geo_enabled": true,
"description": "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
"profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
"verified": true,
"notifications": false,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"statuses_count": 3331,
"status": {
"coordinates": null,
"created_at": "Fri Aug 24 16:15:49 +0000 2012",
"favorited": false,
"truncated": false,
"id_str": "239033279343382529",
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": "134727529",
"text": "@gregclermont no, there is not. ^TS",
"contributors": null,
"retweet_count": 0,
"id": 239033279343382529,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": "238933943146131456",
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": 134727529,
"place": null,
"source": "<a href="//sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/\"" rel="\"nofollow\"">YoruFukurou</a>",
"in_reply_to_screen_name": "gregclermont",
"in_reply_to_status_id": 238933943146131456
},
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"default_profile_image": false,
"friends_count": 31,
"screen_name": "twitterapi",
"following": true,
"show_all_inline_media": false
},
{
"name": "Twitter",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "F6F6F6",
"profile_background_tile": true,
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "EEEEEE",
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174758/v65oai7fxn47qv9nectx_normal.png",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"created_at": "Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 +0000 2007",
"follow_request_sent": false,
"id_str": "783214",
"profile_link_color": "038543",
"is_translator": false,
"default_profile": false,
"favourites_count": 17,
"contributors_enabled": true,
"url": "http://blog.twitter.com/",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174758/v65oai7fxn47qv9nectx_normal.png",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"id": 783214,
"profile_banner_url": "https://si0.twimg.com/brand_banners/twitter/1323368512/live",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"listed_count": 72534,
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"lang": "en",
"followers_count": 12788713,
"protected": false,
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/378245879/Twitter_1544x2000.png",
"geo_enabled": true,
"description": "Always wondering what's happening. ",
"profile_background_color": "ACDED6",
"verified": true,
"notifications": false,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"statuses_count": 1379,
"status": {
"coordinates": null,
"created_at": "Tue Aug 21 19:04:00 +0000 2012",
"favorited": false,
"truncated": false,
"id_str": "237988442338897920",
"retweeted_status": {
"coordinates": null,
"created_at": "Tue Aug 21 18:51:44 +0000 2012",
"favorited": false,
"truncated": false,
"id_str": "237985351858278400",
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"text": "Arijit Guha fought for insurance coverage, and won.\n http://t.co/ZvQ6fU2O #twitterstories http://t.co/bVYPNnV7",
"contributors": [
16896060
],
"retweet_count": 118,
"id": 237985351858278400,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"place": null,
"source": "web",
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id": null
},
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"text": "RT @TwitterStories: Arijit Guha fought for insurance coverage, and won.\n http://t.co/ZvQ6fU2O #twitterstories http://t.co/bVYPNnV7",
"contributors": null,
"retweet_count": 118,
"id": 237988442338897920,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"place": null,
"source": "web",
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id": null
},
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/378245879/Twitter_1544x2000.png",
"default_profile_image": false,
"friends_count": 1195,
"screen_name": "twitter",
"following": true,
"show_all_inline_media": true
}
]
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong here ?
