cpu · October 10, 2011 18:00 · Oct 10, 2011 · Oct 10, 2011
diff --git a/gistfile1.py b/gistfile1.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 try:
   import twitter
-except ImportError
+except ImportError:
   print "You must install the python-twitter library."
   sys.exit(1)
 

diff --git a/gistfile1.py b/gistfile1.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+###############################################################################
+# Quick & Dirty script to download the Avatars of your Twitter Followers
+# Daniel McCarney -- 10/10/11
+#
+# Emphasis on the quick & dirty. There's no error handling, and bad things
+# are liable to happen if you have Twitter followers with malicious avatars
+#
+# Requirements: Python 2.6, python-twitter, OAuth keys*
+#
+# *Twitter requires OAuth authentication for the API calls this script uses.
+#  You'll need to set up an "App" at: https://dev.twitter.com/ and authorize
+#  it access to your account. Take the consumer_key, the consumer_secret, the
+#  access_token_key and the access_token_secret and use them to populate the
+#  settings dictionary.
+###############################################################################
+
+###############################################################################
+## YOUR OAUTH SETTINGS GO HERE ##
+###############################################################################
+settings = {
+  'consumer_key'        : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_CONSUMER_KEY',
+  'consumer_secret'     : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_CONSUMER_SECRET',
+  'access_token_key'    : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY',
+  'access_token_secret' : 'REPLACE_ME_WITH_TOKEN_SECRET',
+}
+###############################################################################
+
+import sys, os.path, urllib2
+
+try:
+  import twitter
+except ImportError
+  print "You must install the python-twitter library."
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+api = twitter.Api(
+  consumer_key        = settings['consumer_key'],
+  consumer_secret     = settings['consumer_secret'],
+  access_token_key    = settings['access_token_key'],
+  access_token_secret = settings['access_token_secret']
+)
+
+followers    = api.GetFollowers()
+imageFetcher = urllib2.build_opener()
+
+for user in followers:
+  username = user.GetScreenName()
+  imageURL = user.GetProfileImageUrl()
+
+  filename  = os.path.split(imageURL)[1]
+  extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
+
+  imageURLConn = imageFetcher.open(imageURL)
+  avatarData   = imageURLConn.read()
+
+  filename = "%s%s" %(username, extension)
+
+  avatarFile = open(filename, "wb")
+  avatarFile.write(avatarData)
+  avatarFile.close()
+
+  print "Username: %s File: %s" %(username, filename)