Sign up for a Twitter Developer account and add your API key, API secret, Access Token Key, and Access Token Secret to twitterstream.py to get started. You'll need Python 2.7 and Oauth2 installed on your machine to get started.
api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
api_secret = "YOUR_API_SECRET"
access_token_key = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY"
access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
To download a stream of tweets and check that everything is working fine, enter in the following command into the terminal:
python twitterstream.py > output.json
This will create a continous stream of tweets and save it to a file named output.json. Let it run for a while to generate new tweets, and then press control + C on your keyboard to stop.
This directory is licensed under the MIT License.