Streaming tweets
It's time to stream some tweets! Your task is to create the Streamobject and to filter tweets according to particular keywords. tweepy has been imported for you.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Importing Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Create your
Streamobject with the credentials given. - Filter your Stream variable for the keywords
"clinton","trump","sanders", and"cruz".
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Store credentials in relevant variables
consumer_key = "nZ6EA0FxZ293SxGNg8g8aP0HM"
consumer_secret = "fJGEodwe3KiKUnsYJC3VRndj7jevVvXbK2D5EiJ2nehafRgA6i"
access_token = "1092294848-aHN7DcRP9B4VMTQIhwqOYiB14YkW92fFO8k8EPy"
access_token_secret = "X4dHmhPfaksHcQ7SCbmZa2oYBBVSD2g8uIHXsp5CTaksx"
# Create your Stream object with credentials
stream = tweepy.Stream(____, ____, ____, ____)
# Filter your Stream variable
stream.filter(____)