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The script creates a twitter stream listener using Tweepy then stores the data in a MySQL database. The code works with Python 3 and will also support emoji ( utf8mbr4 encoding ).
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| # code for streaming twitter to a mysql db | |
| # for Python 3 and will support emoji characters (utf8mb4) | |
| # based on the Python 2 code | |
| # supplied by http://pythonprogramming.net/twitter-api-streaming-tweets-python-tutorial/ | |
| # for further information on how to use python 3, twitter's api, and | |
| # mysql together visit: http://miningthedetails.com/blog/python/TwitterStreamsPythonMySQL/ | |
| from tweepy import Stream | |
| from tweepy import OAuthHandler |