import requests, random from english import English from twitter import Twitter url = 'http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed' \ '/v1.0/summary/significant_hour.geojson' test_url = 'http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/significant_month.geojson' r = requests.get(url) if r.status_code == 200: if len(r.json()['features']) > 0: s = English(r.json()) t = Twitter() t.tweet(s.sentence()) else: print "Error: Status code {}".format(r.status_code)