Exercise

Collecting data on keywords

Now that we've set up the authentication, we can begin to collect Twitter data. Recall that with the Streaming API, we will be collecting real-time Twitter data based on either a sample or filtered by a keyword.

In our example, we will collect data on any tweet mentioning #rstats or #python in the tweet text, username, or user description with the filter endpoint.

The SListener module has already been defined and imported for you. You can find the full code for this module here.

Instructions

100 XP

Import Stream from tweepy.
Set keywords_to_track to a list containing #rstats and #python.
Pass the auth and listen objects to Stream.
Set the keyword argument track equals to keywords_to_track.

Take Hint (-30 XP)