twitter_bot.py

from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import Stream
from tweepy import API
from cleverbot import Cleverbot

import json
import sys

consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""

class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
    """ A listener handles tweets are the received from the stream.
    This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.

    """
    def on_data(self, data):
        print json.loads(data)['text']
        return True

    def on_error(self, status):
        print status

if __name__ == '__main__':
    l = StdOutListener()
    auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

    # send a tweet
    # api = API(auth)
    # api = api.update_status("This is a test tweet. Please disregard.")

    if sys.argv[0]:
        term = sys.argv[1]
    	stream = Stream(auth, l)
    	stream.filter(track=[term])
    else:
        print "No search term given."