Twitter streamListener old.py
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Twitter Stream Listener # tweepy setup import time from tweepy import Stream from tweepy import OAuthHandler from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener import io import os import json # twitter OAuth ckey = '*CONSUMER KEY*' consumer_secret = '*CONSUMER SECRET*' access_token_key = '*ACCESS TOKEN*' access_token_secret = '*ACCESS SECRET*' #Listener Class Override class listener(StreamListener): def __init__(self, start_time, time_limit=60): self.time = start_time self.limit = time_limit def on_data(self, data): while (time.time() - self.time) < self.limit: try: saveFile = open('raw_tweets_old.json', 'a') saveFile.write(data) saveFile.write('\n') saveFile.close() return True except BaseException, e: print 'failed ondata,', str(e) time.sleep(5) pass exit() def on_error(self, status): print status def on_disconnect(self, notice): print 'bye' #Beginning of the specific code start_time = time.time() #grabs the system time keyword_list = ['emoji'] #track list auth = OAuthHandler(ckey, consumer_secret) #OAuth object auth.set_access_token(access_token_key, access_token_secret) twitterStream = Stream(auth, listener(start_time, time_limit=200)) #initialize Stream object with a time out limit twitterStream.filter(track=keyword_list, languages=['en']) #call the filter method to run the Stream Listener