About twitterstream.py:
Used to fetch live stream data from twitter.
Requires oauth2, which is not part of the EnThought Python library.
usage: Open the program and replace access_token_key, access_token_secret, consumer_key, and consumer_secret with the appropriate values. Then run $ python twitterstream.py
To get credentials:
- Create a twitter account if you do not already have one.
- Go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps and log in with your twitter credentials.
- Click "create an application"
- Fill out the form and agree to the terms. Put in a dummy website if you don't have one you want to use.
- On the next page, scroll down and click "Create my access token"
- Copy your "Consumer key" and your "Consumer secret" into twitterstream.py
- Click "Create my access token." You can Read more about Oauth authorization.
- Open twitterstream.py and set the variables corresponding to the consumer key, consumer secret, access token, and access secret
- Run the following and make sure you see data flowing.
$ python twitterstream.py