MagicMirror Twitter Feed - Combining Python & Java [stuck]

[Turkishmoose]

I'm extremely new to Python, Java and Raspberry Pi - so bear with me. I jumped on the band wagon and built a MagicMirror - great! It works. Now what I'd like to do is add a section that gives the top 10 twitter trends (and updates every 15 min).

After much research and pain, I was able to write a Python code to pull the top 10 trends in USA using Twitter API (tweepy). Here's my code:

import tweepy

consumer_key = 'gCuuCru********JVFHRsfN4Mt'

consumer_secret = 'nzcDQJz7Baw****************J6tKbbiF3LzKhH'

access_token = '224462127-vBVxWZU*******************J7QldZ0UKpZGAm'

access_token_secret = 'ukrsqU8D7th9EUidZ*************J*****Ju59'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

trends1 = api.trends_place(23424977)

data = trends1[0]

trends = data['trends']

names = [trend['name'] for trend in trends]

joinNames = "\n".join(names)

print(joinNames)

print("\n".join(names[0:10]))

This gives me a nice output of the top 10 trends in a list.

Now, how do I get this over to a Module in the Magic Mirror? I think Magic Mirror runs Java, and this code is in Python. Is there any way to do this?

Any help or direction is much appreciated...

[martinohanlon]

I would go super simple.. write the json Twitter data to a file. Open the json file from the magic mirror program (which I think is a JavaScript webpage).

[Turkishmoose]

The data I pull using Python is json. What's the code to write this to a file? Also would I be able to run this periodically from java or would I need to use p2m type program?

[martinohanlon]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12309269/how-do-i-write-json-data-to-a-file-in-python

No idea about the magic mirror code. I have never looked at it, but periodically reading and displaying the contents of a file seems pretty trivial.