Just playing with Tweepy / Twitter Streaming api.

streaming_tweepy.py

#uses tweepys/twitter streaming api, problem with using this is that you dont always get ALL the tweets.
#https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters#follow

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream

import json


class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
    """ A listener handles tweets are the received from the stream.
    This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.

    """
    def on_data(self, data):
        #print(data)
        decoded = json.loads(data)
        print('@%s : %s' % (decoded['user']['screen_name'],decoded['text']))
        #print(decoded)
        return True

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

if __name__ == '__main__':
    l = StdOutListener()

    # Consumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth
    consumer_key = ''
    consumer_secret = ''
    access_token = ''
    access_token_secret = ''
    
    # OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
    auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

    #go for it...
    stream = Stream(auth, l)
    #stream.filter(track=['basketball']) # keyword search
    stream.filter(follow=['55432787']) # username search, needs to the user id, ie. @3aw693 = 55432787