how to get the tweets from the tweeter using tweetstream python

Question

I have written this script:

import tweetstream   
import pymongo  
connection = pymongo.Connection("mongodb://localhost:27017")  
db = connection.socialdata  
words = ["social media", "innovation", "cloud computing"]  
with tweetstream.FilterStream('username', 'password', track=words) as stream:  
    for tweet in stream:         
        db.tweets.save(tweet)

But on execution I am getting following error please tell me how to remove this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "tweet.py", line 9, in <module>
        with tweetstream.FilterStream(username, password, track=words) as stream:
TypeError: __init__() takes at least 5 arguments (4 given)</module>

Thanks in advance.

You're missing one argument. It expects 5 arguments, and you've given it 4. `tweetstream`, `username`, `password`, and `track`. Read the documentation to see what's the one missing — Paco, Oct 15 '13 at 12:37

Tharindu Rusira · Answer 1 · 2013-10-15T15:01:26.347

I'm wondering how you got tweetstream working in the first place because all I know is that basic username/password access was deprecated some time back. Now Twitter allows OAuth access only.

Turning back to your question, your FileStream call is perfectly valid. Look at FileStream class implementation and you'd understand why.

Following are few lines of code from FilterStream class which is available here

def __init__(self, username, password, follow=None, locations=None,
                 track=None, catchup=None, raw=False, timeout=None, url=None):
        self._follow = follow
        self._locations = locations
        self._track = track
        # remove follow, locations, track
        BaseStream.__init__(self, username, password,
                            raw=raw, timeout=timeout, url=url)

So, tweetstream.FilterStream("username", "password", track=words) should work. Because as you can see there are only 3 mandatory arguments for __init__. (self,username, password).

All others are optional. Please be noted that this code is from tweetstream 1.1.1 which I think the last version released.

However, as said in your error,FilterStream constructor in tweetstream takes a minimum of 5 arguments.

This documentation gives an example for what you are trying to do.

As it says, try using this initialization instead,

with tweetstream.FilterStream("username", "password", track=words,
                               follow=people, locations=locations) as stream

According to the source,

Locations are a list of bounding boxes in which geotagged tweets should originate. The argument should be an iterable of longitude/latitude pairs.
Track specifies keywords to track. The argument should be an iterable of strings.
Follow returns statuses that reference given users. Argument should be an iterable of twitter user IDs. The IDs are userid ints, not the screen names.

thanks for your reply. But I tried the same given on that link still getting the same error so is there any another way to do this please suggest. — Shilpa Jawale, Oct 15 '13 at 12:38
@ShilpaJawale, what library are you exactly using? Streaming API ? — Tharindu Rusira, Oct 15 '13 at 12:46
hi can you tell me the alternative to the tweetstream for doing this task as tweeter api(1.1) does not support tweetstream — Shilpa Jawale, Oct 15 '13 at 13:32
See if [this](http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/) helps. By the way @ShilpaJawale, isn't the username/password access deprecated by Twitter now? I think now they allow OAuth only — Tharindu Rusira, Oct 15 '13 at 14:03

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