Unable to stop Streaming in tweepy after one minute

Question

I am trying to stream twitter data for a period of time of say 5 minutes, using the Stream.filter() method. I am storing the retrieved tweets in a JSON file. The problem is I am

Answer 1

So, I was having this issue as well. Fortunately Tweepy is open source so it's easy so dig into the problem.

Basically the important part is this here:

def _data(self, data):
    if self.listener.on_data(data) is False:
        self.running = False

On Stream class in streaming.py

That means, to close the connection you just have to return false on the listener's on_data() method.