Goal of this script is to find all places that have a Twitter trend available, tapping into Twitter's trends/available API feed, pulling out specific fields, and populating a pipe delimited file.

trendsAvailable.py

# goal of this script is to find all places that have a Twitter trend available, tapping into Twitter's trends/available API feed, pulling out specific fields, and populating a pipe delimited file.
# import libraries
import twitter
import re
import json
import fileinput
import collections
import os
import sys

# import needed object
from twitter import (Trend)

# build new class to access Twitter API's trends/available feed
class ExtendedApi(twitter.Api):
    def TrendsAvailable(self):
        url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/trends/available.json"
        resp = self._RequestUrl(url, verb='GET')
        data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(resp.content.decode('utf-8'))
        return data

# insert Twitter API credentials
api = ExtendedApi(consumer_key=[],
                  consumer_secret=[],
                  access_token_key=[],
                  access_token_secret=[])

# pull out response from ExtendedApi
trends = api.TrendsAvailable()

# set up output file
output = open("trends.txt", "w")

# get the data in a useable data type
jsonDumps = json.dumps({'trends': trends})
jsonLoads = json.loads(jsonDumps)

# loop JSON objects
for jsonLoad in jsonLoads['trends']:
    # write targeted output to txt file as pipe delimited
    output.write(jsonLoad['name'] + "|" + jsonLoad['country'] + "|" + str(jsonLoad['woeid']) + "|" + "\n")
output.close()