A bare-minimum implementation of Twitter's Streaming API using python-requests library. Prints out tweets as they come in.

auth.py

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

requirements.txt

requests==0.14.2
requests-oauth==0.4.1

streaming_twitter_requests.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import sys
import json
import auth
import requests
from oauth_hook import OAuthHook

OAuthHook.consumer_key = auth.consumer_key
OAuthHook.consumer_secret = auth.consumer_secret
oauth_hook = OAuthHook(auth.access_token,
                       auth.access_token_secret)

client = requests.session(hooks={'pre_request':oauth_hook})
r = client.post('https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1/user.json',
                prefetch=False, verify=False)

# Set chunk_size to a very small number
# if you don't want to wait forever
for line in r.iter_lines(chunk_size=1, decode_unicode=True):
    if line: # filter out keep-alive new lines
        data = json.loads(line)
        if data.has_key('text'):
            try:
                print "%s: %s" % (data['user']['screen_name'],
                                  data['text'],)
            except:
                print "Couldn't print tweet with ID: %s" % data['id']