twoolpy

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/twoolpy
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/twoolpy
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: c5b9283b633cb466b873cc497cbffce9280f8fac11bf864a109b099e5262da93
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Minimal implementations
• Corpus source note: 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus
• Project taxonomy: karpathy-project-taxonomy
• Idea map: karpathy-idea-map
• Topic hub: karpathy-public-work

Summary

Twoolpy Twitter API fun scripts using Tweepy in Python. I’m hoping people can use these examples as repository to draw on when they develop their own scripts. Scripts 1. $pythonrecommend.pyblahblah:givesrecommendationstouse{r}^{\prime }blahbla{h}^{\prime }onwhotofollow,basedontheirsocialgraphontwitter.Itlooksforpeoplewhoareveryoftenfollowedbyblahbla{h}^{\prime }sfollowers,butwh{o}^{\prime }blahbla{h}^{\prime }does{n}^{\prime }tfollow.2.$ python userstream.py : prints authenticated user’s timeline, live 3. $ python followersdiff.py : finds all your followers and saves them to local file. Re-running the script will do a diff with that file s…

What This Teaches

• How a complex idea can be compressed into a minimal but working implementation.
• Useful as a reference style for serious small systems rather than decorative demos.

Why It Matters

This matters as part of Karpathy’s broader pattern: compress hard technical systems into readable, inspectable, working artifacts.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/twoolpy
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: f85afab4712f21b19e1a1627b91f1d20d164ffb5
• Stars at crawl: 88
• Forks at crawl: 13
• File count: 8
• README path: README.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2011-04-02T19:15:31Z
• Updated: 2026-04-26T11:06:06Z
• Pushed: 2012-11-29T01:23:07Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 8

File Extension Profile

• .py: 7
• .md: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• authtest.py
• followersdiff.py
• printactive.py
• README.md
• recommend.py
• tweetutils.py
• twitstream.py
• userstream.py

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