How to collect Tweets in real time with tweepy in Python

Question

I am working on a project that consists of collecting the tweets posted here in Brazil, I am using the Twitter API and the tweepy library of Python, I can take the terms that are in trending Topics and do a search for them and collect their tweets, but I wanted to do it randomly and in real time. I can make collections in real time with the StreamListener but I don’t know how I do it to collect the tweets randomly. my code:

class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_status(self, status):
        print(status.text)


myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()
myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = autenticacao, listener=myStreamListener)
myStream.filter(track=['python'])

in the myStream.filter I specify what I want to search for, but I don’t want to do a specific search I want to collect the tweets that are being posted here in Brazil in real time. If anyone knows any way to do that it would help me a lot.

Answer 1

Importing the tweepy:

import tweepy

Over screve tweepy.Streamlistener:

class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_status(self, status):
        print(status.text)

Credentials:

consumer_key = 'SUA_API_KEY'
consumer_secret = 'SUA_API_SECRET'

access_token = 'SEU_ACCESS_TOKEN'
access_token_secret = 'SEU_ACCESS_SECRET_TOKEN'

Creating the authentication:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) 
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)  

Instantiating Mystreamlistener:

myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()
myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = auth, listener = myStreamListener)

Here you filter tweets by location:

location = [-73.5,-33.0,-34.7,4.9]
myStream.filter( locations= location)

Note: You must improve longitude and latitude to catch exactly from Brazil. I put only one example.

You can use this site to retrieve location data.