#! /usr/bin/env python import urllib2 import json import zlib import base64 from subprocess import call from os.path import expanduser json_data=open(expanduser('~')+'/.conky/scripts/.passwords.json') data = json.load(json_data) access_token=data['twitter']['access_token'] user = data['twitter']['user'] request = urllib2.Request("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=" + user) bearer_value = 'Bearer %s' % access_token request.add_header("Authorization", bearer_value) j = urllib2.urlopen(request) json_data = j.read() j_obj = json.loads(json_data) print "${color1}Twitter Followers: ${alignr}${color white}%d" %(j_obj['followers_count'])