jazzina / twitter-streaming-api-python

This is a python program to get tweets on streaming from twitter website and return in a json file.

#twitter-streaming-api

1. About
2. Requirements
3. Twitter Access
4. The Code
5. Fonts

About

This is a python program to get tweets in streaming from twitter database and return in a json.

Requirements

1. Python 3.0 installed.
2. Install Tweepy: pip install tweepy
3. Twitter Account.

Twitter Access

To get twitter data, you need 4 access key. Its very simple to get those.

Go to https://apps.twitter.com and click in 'Create New App' and insert the request informations.

Now you create a Twitter App, lets go get there keys. Open the App page and click in Keys and Access Token.

Alright, now we knows the App Key and the App Token.

The Code

from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream

#Variables that contains yours credentials to access Twitter API 
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"

#This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.
class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
    
    def on_data(self, data):
        print(data)
        return True

    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    #This handles Twitter authetification and the connection to Twitter Streaming API
    l = StdOutListener()
    auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    stream = Stream(auth, l)

    #This line filter tweets from the words.
    stream.filter(track=['key1', 'key2'])

Execute

Now we can execute the program. Just type in terminal: python file_name.py and see the magic.

To send all this data to a JSON file, type: python file_name.py > name_json.js

Fonts

Tweepy GitHub: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy

This code were based from this link: http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2014/07/twitter-analytics/