Filtering in tweepy

python python-3.x hashtag tweepy
Irina picture Irina · Feb 13, 2015 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I am new to tweepy and have encountered a problem. I want to download tweets with special hashtags. But it seems 

stream.filter(track = ['word1', 'word2', 'word3'])

looks for these words in tweet and not in hashtags of the tweet. How can I filter on hashtags?

Answer

dbernard picture dbernard · Feb 18, 2015

You can actually filter tweets based on your special hashtag.

stream.filter(track=['#MySpecialHashtag', '#AlsoThisHashtag'])

This will pick up only tweets that contain the hashtags you provide as part of the tweet text and save you from arbitrarily collecting tweets and checking if the hashtag field has your hashtag in it.

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