Convert Tweepy Status object into JSON

Question

I'm using Tweepy to download tweets. I have a program that then writes the actual Status object to a file in text form. How do I translate this into JSON, or import this object back into Python? I've tried using the JSON library to encode, but Status is not JSON serializable.

Answer 1

The Status object of tweepy itself is not JSON serializable, but it has a _json property which contains JSON serializable response data. For example:

>>> status_list = api.user_timeline(user_handler) >>> status = status_list[0] >>> json_str = json.dumps(status._json) 

Answer 2

A better way to do this is to use a tweepy parser. It's not documented very well - see the Tweepy API reference - but it's a public API, so much safer than using the _json property.

import tweepy auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET) api = tweepy.API(auth, parser=tweepy.parsers.JSONParser()) status = api.user_timeline(user=username, count=1)[0] json.dumps(status) 

status is now a json object.