How to save a tweepy Twitter stream to a file?

Question

I have a working script that successfully gathers tweets that mention \"stackoverflow\". However, I want to run the script in iPython (rather than executive a separate .py f

Answer 1

add the following code to your existing code. 'fetched_tweets.txt' is the name of file in which you want to save the tweets which is opened in 'a'(append mode).

class StdOutListener(StreamListener):

    def on_data(self, data):
        #print data
        with open('fetched_tweets.txt','a') as tf:
            tf.write(data)
        return True

    def on_error(self, status):
        print status

Answer 2

You can do it by redirecting output to a file:

in Terminal/CMD just type python twitter_streaming.py > twitter_data.txt

for appending to an existing file use >> instead of >.