Python scripts for accessing the public Twitter streaming API. twitterstream_public.py and twitterstream_filtered_geo.py are examples of the straight Twitter API, while tweepy_geo.py uses the Tweepy python module. In order to use these scripts, you will need:
- Consumer Key (API Key)
- Consumer Secret (API Secret)
- Access Token
- Access Token Secret
which you'll need to visit Twitter's App Manager to create a new app to receive the above items. Simply plug your keys into the scripts and run using one of the usage examples below.
This command pipes the output to a json or txt file. Stop the script with Ctrl-C, but wait a few minutes (at the very least) for data to accumulate. If you run a filtered stream and the output file has a size of 0 bytes, you probably didn't let it run long enough.
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Recommended Method - Run one of the scripts and save the output to json file
$ python twitterstream_public.py > public_stream.json
$ python twitterstream_filtered_geo.py > geo.json
$ python tweepy_geo.py > tweepy_geo.json -
Run one of the scripts and save output to text file
$ python twitterstream_public.py > public_stream.txt
$ python twitterstream_filtered_geo.py > geo.txt
$ python tweepy_geo.py > tweepy_geo.json
Once the script is stopped (Ctrl + C), you should be able to see the tweets in your output file. **NOTE: ** The public stream is Twitter's 1% live stream and will produce a lot more tweets than any filtered stream.