twitter-stream

Simple Twitter library to stream data filter by #hastag stored in a csv file

##Installation

1. Get your credential for '''streaming Twitter API''': by creating a twitter app on twitter app page : https://apps.twitter.com/

• See Twitter Stream API documentation for more info: https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview

• To extend current package take a look at the brillant tweepy module: https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy

2. Install tweepy package

pip install tweepy

or install throught requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure your project into config.json file with:

• the credentials given into your twitter application
• the project info configuration: a database_name and the query (#hashtag)
• if you want to filter on specific twitter accounts set a list of followed user account
• set a timeout date to specify the end of the streaming archives (expressed in day format = dd/mm/yyyy)

{"consumer_key" :"",
"consumer_secret" : "",
"access_token" : "",
"access_token_secret" : "",
"database_name": "opencon",
"followed_users": false,
"hashtag":"#opencon",
"timeout_date":"18/11/2015"}

Stream it!

In command line or in a cron

$ python streamtweet.py &