Scrapr is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.
scrapr
This project demonstrates the right and proper use of Django, python-twitter, jQuery, and Google's javascript visualization library.
Probably easiest is to use pip to install the libraries. pip is a replacement for easy_install (and does much more besides). Installing pip (perhaps with sudo): easy_install pip Then install the other dependencies, and: mkdir db python manage.py syncdb python manage.py runserver python -c 'import webbrowser; webbrowser.open("http://localhost:8000/app/")'