twitter/stream_example.py

   1 """
   2 Example program for the Stream API. This prints public status messages
   3 from the "sample" stream as fast as possible.
   4
   5 USAGE
   6
   7   stream-example -t <token> -ts <token_secret> -ck <consumer_key> -cs <consumer_secret>
   8
   9 """
  10
  11 from __future__ import print_function
  12
  13 import argparse
  14
  15 from twitter.stream import TwitterStream
  16 from twitter.oauth import OAuth
  17 from twitter.util import printNicely
  18
  19
  20 def parse_arguments():
  21
  22     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  23
  24     parser.add_argument('-t',  '--token', help='The Twitter Access Token.')
  25     parser.add_argument('-ts', '--token_secret', help='The Twitter Access Token Secret.')
  26     parser.add_argument('-ck', '--consumer_key', help='The Twitter Consumer Key.')
  27     parser.add_argument('-cs', '--consumer_secret', help='The Twitter Consumer Secret.')
  28
  29     return parser.parse_args()
  30
  31 ##  parse_arguments()
  32
  33
  34 def main():
  35
  36     args = parse_arguments()
  37
  38     # When using twitter stream you must authorize.
  39     stream = TwitterStream(auth=OAuth(args.token, args.token_secret, args.consumer_key, args.consumer_secret))
  40
  41     # Iterate over the sample stream.
  42     tweet_iter = stream.statuses.sample()
  43     for tweet in tweet_iter:
  44         # You must test that your tweet has text. It might be a delete
  45         # or data message.
  46         if tweet.get('text'):
  47             printNicely(tweet['text'])
  48
  49 ##  main()
  50
  51 if __name__ == '__main__':
  52     main()