The Requests streaming example does not work in my environment

Question

I\'ve been trying to consume the Twitter Streaming API using Python Requests.

There\'s a simple example in the documentation:

import requests
import jso         


        

Answer 1

Ah, I found the answer by reading the code. At some point, a prefetch parameter was added to the post method (and other methods, I assume).

I just needed to add a prefetch=False kwarg to requests.post().

Answer 2

You need to switch off prefetching, which I think is a parameter that changed defaults:

r = requests.post('https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json',
    data={'track': 'requests'}, auth=('username', 'password'),
    prefetch=False)

for line in r.iter_lines():
    if line: # filter out keep-alive new lines
        print json.loads(line)

Note that as of requests 1.x the parameter has been renamed, and now you use stream=True:

r = requests.post('https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json',
    data={'track': 'requests'}, auth=('username', 'password'),
    stream=True)

for line in r.iter_lines():
    if line: # filter out keep-alive new lines
        print json.loads(line)