Tweepy Stream

stream.py

import json
import atexit
import tweepy
from tweepy import Stream
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener

def exit_handler():
    with open('tweets.json') as f:
        content = f.readlines()
        content_comma = ','.join(content)
        file = open('tweets.json', 'w')
        file.write('[' + content_comma + ']')
        file.close()

atexit.register(exit_handler)

consumer_key = 'CONSUMER-KEY'
consumer_secret = 'CONSUMER-SECRET'
access_token = 'ACCESS-TOKEN'
access_secret = 'ACCESS-SECRET'

auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

class MyListener(StreamListener):

    def on_data(self, data):
        try:
            with open('tweets.json', 'a') as f:
                f.write(data)
                return True
        except BaseException as e:
            print('Error on_data: %s' % str(e))
        return True

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

twitter_stream = Stream(auth, MyListener())
twitter_stream.filter(languages=['en'], track=['a', 'the', 'i', 'you', 'u'])