• This program connects to twitter's REST API
• Track tweets as a Regexp with the words inside a list
  • a space between the words mean a AND logic;
  • commas mean OR logic.

import tweepy from tweepy import Stream from tweepy import OAuthHandler import time import json

class Listener(tweepy.StreamListener):

def on_data(self, data):
    try:
        json_data = json.loads(data)
        created_at = json_data['created_at']
        text = json_data['text']
        lang = json_data['user']['lang']
        user_id = str(json_data['user']['id'])

        info_from_tweet = 'USER_ID:' + user_id + ' CREATED_AT:' + created_at + ' TEXT:' + text + \
                          ' LANG:' + lang
        save_file = open('tweetDB_using_lot_of_track_names.csv', 'a')
        save_file.write(str(info_from_tweet))
        save_file.write('\n')
        save_file.close()
        return True
    except BaseException, e:
        print('Failed', str(e))
        # print (str(e)
        time.sleep(5)
    
def on_error(self, status_code):
    if status_code == 420:
        # retornar Falso ira desconectar o stream de dados
        return False

auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key=consumer_key, consumer_secret=consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) twitterStream = Stream(auth, Listener()) twitterStream.filter(track=["depression", "depressive", "depressive life", "depressive mood", "depressive depression"], async=True)