/national_debt

Scrapes the national debt and tweets it

Primary LanguagePython

retrieves the national debt and population, tweets it, and writes it to a file

example twitter output: http://twitter.com/#!/USADebtLevel/status/68023831498997760

national debt and population are retrieved from the us treasury and census sites
using beautifulsoup

the program expects a configuration file named config.cfg that matches the format
of example_config.cfg. 

includes functions get_national_debt() and get_us_population()