I need to develop an app that lets me track tweets and save them in a mongodb for a research project (as you might gather, I am a noob, so please bear with me). I have found this piece of code that sends tweets streaming through my terminal window:
import sys
import tweepy
consumer_key=""
consumer_secret=""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
def on_status(self, status):
print status.text
def on_error(self, status_code):
print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered error with status code:', status_code
return True # Don't kill the stream
def on_timeout(self):
print >> sys.stderr, 'Timeout...'
return True # Don't kill the stream
sapi = tweepy.streaming.Stream(auth, CustomStreamListener())
sapi.filter(track=['Gandolfini'])
Is there a way I can modify this piece of code so that instead of having tweets streaming over my screen, they are sent to my mongodb database?
Thanks
Here's an example:
import json
import pymongo
import tweepy
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
def __init__(self, api):
self.api = api
super(tweepy.StreamListener, self).__init__()
self.db = pymongo.MongoClient().test
def on_data(self, tweet):
self.db.tweets.insert(json.loads(tweet))
def on_error(self, status_code):
return True # Don't kill the stream
def on_timeout(self):
return True # Don't kill the stream
sapi = tweepy.streaming.Stream(auth, CustomStreamListener(api))
sapi.filter(track=['Gandolfini'])
This will write tweets to the mongodb test
database, tweets
collection.
Hope that helps.