Python: Tweepy: Twitter Streaming
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import tweepy import json consumer_key = ' ' consumer_secret = ' ' access_token = ' ' access_token_secret = ' ' # This is the listener, resposible for receiving data class StdOutListener(tweepy.StreamListener): def on_data(self, data): # Twitter returns data in JSON format - we need to decode it first decoded = json.loads(data) # Also, we convert UTF-8 to ASCII ignoring all bad characters sent by users print '@%s: %s' % (decoded['user']['screen_name'], decoded['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore')) print return True def on_error(self, status): print status if __name__ == '__main__': l = StdOutListener() auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) print "Showing all new tweets for #ahok:" # There are different kinds of streams: public stream, user stream, multi-user streams # In this example follow #programming tag # For more details refer to https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis stream = tweepy.Stream(auth, l) stream.filter(track=['ahok'])