CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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qorka
qorka

Reputation: 114

Twitter Scanner w tweepy - Python

I was just wondering if it's possible to make a scanner with tweepy - for instance, a while loop that is constantly searching for certain words. I'm a trader and would find it very useful in case there is any breaking news.

Example:

I want to set my scanner to constantly return tweets that have '$DB' in them. Furthermore, I only want to return tweets of users that have > 5k followers.

Any advice or pointers would be helpful! Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 793

Answers (1)

chickity china chinese chicken
chickity china chinese chicken

Reputation: 8057

Edit/Update: As discussed by asongtoruin and qorka, the question asks for new tweets, not existing tweets. Previous edit used api.search method which finds only existing messages. The StreamListener reads new messages. 

import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler

access_token='your_api_token'
access_secret='your_api_access_secret'
consumer_key = 'your_api_key'
consumer_secret = 'your_consumer_key'

auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

class MyListener(StreamListener):
    def on_status(self, status):
        try:
            if status.user.followers_count > 5000:
                print '%s (%s at %s, followers: %d)' % (status.text, status.user.screen_name, status.created_at, status.user.followers_count)
                return True
        except BaseException as e:
            print("Error on_status: %s" % str(e))
        return True

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

twitter_stream = Stream(auth, MyListener())
twitter_stream.filter(track=['$DB','$MS','$C'])

Upvotes: 3

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