Tweepy Streaming - Stop collecting tweets at x amount

Question

I\'m looking to have the Tweepy Streaming API stop pulling in tweets after I have stored x # of tweets in MongoDB.

I have tried IF and WHILE statements inside the c

Answer 1

You need to add a counter inside of your class in __init__, and then increment it inside of on_status. Then when the counter is below 20 it will insert a record into the collection. This could be done as show below:

def __init__(self, api=None):
    super(StdOutListener, self).__init__()
    self.num_tweets = 0

def on_status(self, status):
    record = {'Text': status.text, 'Created At': status.created_at}
    print record #See Tweepy documentation to learn how to access other fields
    self.num_tweets += 1
    if self.num_tweets < 20:
        collection.insert(record)
        return True
    else:
        return False