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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…
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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) |
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