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Twitter Stream Tracker + Inserting Data into (MySQL) Database
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| import tweepy | |
| import MySQLdb | |
| import sys | |
| import os | |
| import logging | |
| # Tweepy API doc here: http://pythonhosted.org/tweepy/html/api.html | |
| # Keys | |
| consumer_key = os.getenv("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY") | |
| consumer_secret = os.getenv("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET") | |
| access_token = os.getenv("TWITTER_TOKEN") | |
| access_token_secret = os.getenv("TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET") | |
| # Twitter initialization | |
| auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
| auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) | |
| api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
| # MySQL initialization | |
| connection = MySQLdb.connect(host= "localhost", | |
| user="twtr", | |
| passwd="twtr", | |
| db="twitter") | |
| cursor = connection.cursor() | |
| # The table schema: CREATE TABLE tweets (id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, tweet_id BIGINT NOT NULL, tweet_text VARCHAR(160) NOT NULL, screen_name VARCHAR(160) NOT NULL, author_id BIGINT, created_at DATETIME NOT NULL, inserted_at DATETIME NOT NULL) | |
| # For streaming | |
| class TwitterStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener): | |
| def on_status(self, status): | |
| try: | |
| cursor.execute("INSERT INTO tweets (tweet_id, tweet_text, screen_name, author_id, created_at, inserted_at) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, NOW());", (status.id, status.text, status.author.screen_name, status.author.id, status.created_at)) | |
| connection.commit() | |
| except: | |
| pass | |
| def on_error(self, status_code): | |
| # Rate limit reached | |
| if status_code == 420: | |
| logging.exception("Rate limit reached") # disconnects stream | |
| try: | |
| streamListener = TwitterStreamListener() | |
| twitterStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = api.auth, listener=streamListener) | |
| twitterStream.filter(track=['ransomware']) | |
| except tweepy.error.TweepError as e: | |
| logging.exception(e) | |
| except UnicodeEncodeError as e: | |
| logging.exception(e) | |
| except: | |
| logging.exception(sys.exc_info()[0]) | |
| raise | |
| finally: | |
| cursor.close() | |
| connection.close() |
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