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)

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)

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