A template for experimenting with the Twitter Streaming API with helpful comments in plain English.
Uses Python threading and queues to process tweets provided using Twitter's search API.
Also includes a method of encoding tweets in ASCII to make Python play nice with Windows 10 terminal.
You can find a full overview in my blog post, or ask me about it @victoriadotdev.
- Python
- Uses Twython (
pip install Twython)
- Uses Twython (
- API access credentials of your own
- Register your application and get these from: https://dev.twitter.com/apps
Tested with Python 3.5.2