solved

[frazanolo]

solved

[MichaelCurrin]

Take the streaming filter and run it alone. With a hand coded list of handles.

Perhaps you need @ to be added or removed from handle.

Also BTW you can use Tweepy to lookup a user by name (or ID) and get their ID on the returned User object. You might even be able to do batch lookup like the batch tweet IDs lookup

[MichaelCurrin]

Maybe there is just low activity? Try follow your own account and make a tweet.

From tweepy docs:

This example shows how to use filter to stream tweets by a specific user. The follow parameter is an array of IDs.
myStream.filter(follow=["2211149702"])

See if that works for our own account and your own stream instance.

See also this issue #981 - the description says there is a limitation. I don't know if that's true.

stream.filter(follow=['12345']) includes tweets at someone and RT

The Twitter docs describe follow here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/guides/basic-stream-parameters.

If you don't come right, use .search API to get the last 20 or so tweets from named users, though of course you'd have to run that periodically to pull in live tweets.

[frazanolo]

i've been doing this with my account since i started and the problem is not that because when i run the single tweepy file it works perfectly, but if i ask it to follow the accounts that i got from the other file it doesn't work anymore

[Harmon758]

Since discord.py bots run asynchronously, you'll need to use the is_async parameter to run the stream in a separate thread.
Otherwise, the stream will block the Discord bot from running.

Note, Requests is also blocking and is liable to cause issues with your Discord bot.

You can also use Twitter's API with the GET users/show endpoint using API.get_user or the GET users/lookup endpoint using API.lookup_users to retrieve User objects by ID with attributes including name, screen_name, etc. Note though, that Tweepy also uses Requests internally. For asyncio support for Tweepy, see #732.