Example of connecting to the Twitter user stream using Requests.

settings.py

# OAuth stuff...
ACCESS_TOKEN = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
CONSUMER_KEY = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"

userstream.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Example of connecting to the Twitter user stream using Requests.
"""

import sys

import json

import requests

from oauth_hook import OAuthHook

def userstream(access_token, access_token_secret, consumer_key, consumer_secret):
    oauth_hook = OAuthHook(access_token=access_token, access_token_secret=access_token_secret, 
                           consumer_key=consumer_key, consumer_secret=consumer_secret, 
                           header_auth=True)

    hooks = dict(pre_request=oauth_hook)
    config = dict(verbose=sys.stderr)
    client = requests.session(hooks=hooks, config=config)

    data = dict(delimited="length")
    r = client.post("https://userstream.twitter.com/2/user.json", data=data, prefetch=False)
    
    # TODO detect disconnection somehow
    # https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/200/files#L13R169
    # Use a timeout? http://pguides.net/python-tutorial/python-timeout-a-function/
    for chunk in r.iter_lines(chunk_size=1):
        if chunk and not chunk.isdigit():
            yield json.loads(chunk)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import pprint
    import settings
    for obj in userstream(access_token=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN, access_token_secret=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, consumer_key=settings.CONSUMER_KEY, consumer_secret=settings.CONSUMER_SECRET):
        pprint.pprint(obj)