tweetstreamer

A Tweepy streamer to collect tweets from Twitter's Streaming API based on criteria, with an extremely simple API

Requirements

You will need the following from Twitter:

• CONSUMER_KEY
• CONSUMER_SECRET
• ACCESS_KEY
• ACCESS_SECRET

For this you can visit https://apps.twitter.com to setup the access keys

Install

pip install tweetstreamer

Usage

For example if you want to listen for tweets about $AAPL stocks

from tweetstreamer import auth, listen

connection = auth(<CONSUMER_KEY>, <CONSUMER_SECRET>, <ACCESS_KEY>, <ACCESS_SECRET>)
listen(connection, <TRACK>, on_status, on_error, on_timeout, on_disconnect)