NOTE: this code is for a previous version of the Twitter API and I will not be updating in the near future. If someone else would like to, I'd welcome that! Feel free to ping me. END NOTE. Here I define a Tweet listener that creates a file called 'tweets.txt', collects streaming tweets as .jsons and writes them to the file 'tweets.txt'; once 100…

tweet_listener.py

class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
    def __init__(self, api=None):
        super(MyStreamListener, self).__init__()
        self.num_tweets = 0
        self.file = open("tweets.txt", "w")

    def on_status(self, status):
        tweet = status._json
        self.file.write( json.dumps(tweet) + '\n' )
        self.num_tweets += 1
        if self.num_tweets < 100:
            return True
        else:
            return False
        self.file.close()

    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)

@strashynskyi thanks for pinging me. it looks like this the twitter API has changed so that this code doesn't run now. I don't have the bandwidth to go in and figure out what the correct code looks like. If someone else wants to, that would be great. I've made the following note in the description of this gist:

NOTE: this code is for a previous version of the Twitter API and I will not be updating in the near future. If someone else would like to, I'd welcome that! Feel free to ping me. END NOTE.

class MyStreamListener (tweepy.StreamListener):
    def __init__(self, api = None):
        super(MyStreamListener, self).__init__()
        self.num_tweets = 0
        self.file_name = "tweets.txt"
        #self.file = open("tweets.txt", "w")

    def on_status(self, status):
        tweet = status._json
        with open(self.file_name, 'a') as file:
            file.write(json.dumps(tweet) + '\n')
        self.num_tweets += 1
        if self.num_tweets < 100:
            return True
        else:
            return False

    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)

class MyStreamListener (tweepy.StreamListener):
    def __init__(self, api = None):
        super(MyStreamListener, self).__init__()
        self.num_tweets = 0
        self.file_name = "tweets.txt"
        #self.file = open("tweets.txt", "w")

    def on_status(self, status):
        tweet = status._json
        with open(self.file_name, 'a') as file:
            file.write(json.dumps(tweet) + '\n')
        self.num_tweets += 1
        if self.num_tweets < 100:
            return True
        else:
            return False

    def on_error(self, status):
        print(status)

Thanks