Merge pull request #249 from mbfhunzaker/master

Unquote Twitter API responses to address URL encoding error
ptwobrussell · Jan 15, 2015 · a4db107 · a4db107
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diff --git a/ipynb/Chapter 1 - Mining Twitter.ipynb b/ipynb/Chapter 1 - Mining Twitter.ipynb
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@
      "cell_type": "code",
      "collapsed": false,
      "input": [
+      "# Import unquote to prevent url encoding errors in next_results\n",
+      "from urllib import unquote\n",
+      "\n",
       "# XXX: Set this variable to a trending topic, \n",
       "# or anything else for that matter. The example query below\n",
       "# was a trending topic when this content was being developed\n",
@@ -209,7 +212,7 @@
       "        \n",
       "    # Create a dictionary from next_results, which has the following form:\n",
       "    # ?max_id=313519052523986943&q=NCAA&include_entities=1\n",
-      "    kwargs = dict([ kv.split('=') for kv in next_results[1:].split(\"&\") ])\n",
+      "    kwargs = dict([ kv.split('=') for kv in unquote(next_results[1:]).split(\"&\") ])\n",
       "    \n",
       "    search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(**kwargs)\n",
       "    statuses += search_results['statuses']\n",

diff --git a/ipynb/__Chapter 1 - Mining Twitter (Full-Text Sampler).ipynb b/ipynb/__Chapter 1 - Mining Twitter (Full-Text Sampler).ipynb
@@ -1210,6 +1210,9 @@
      "cell_type": "code",
      "collapsed": false,
      "input": [
+      "# Import unquote to prevent url encoding errors in next_results\n",
+      "from urllib import unquote\n",
+      "\n",
       "# XXX: Set this variable to a trending topic, \n",
       "# or anything else for that matter. The example query below\n",
       "# was a trending topic when this content was being developed\n",
@@ -1237,7 +1240,8 @@
       "        \n",
       "    # Create a dictionary from next_results, which has the following form:\n",
       "    # ?max_id=313519052523986943&q=NCAA&include_entities=1\n",
-      "    kwargs = dict([ kv.split('=') for kv in next_results[1:].split(\"&\") ])\n",
+      "    kwargs = dict([kv.split('=') for kv in unquote(next_results[1:]).split(\"&\") ])    \n",
+      "\n",
       "    \n",
       "    search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(**kwargs)\n",
       "    statuses += search_results['statuses']\n",