FeedReader.py

#Import the necessary methods from tweepy library
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream
import json
#Variables that contains the user credentials to access Twitter API 
access_token = "782730432-K7m6BlGBmWxRNhDBxO7WDXkGIE3N7vitnMwmQrT4"
access_token_secret = "mN565FUoXQffNRPyf3meErRNoF8isyAkBsBnxQMDKFz1Y"
consumer_key = "oxya7KmlE7yhLlS3m3Yc7BHEP"
consumer_secret = "Uc3E8STnjQ1jEatJTqexistZn5ZHqXPajAi18Hu0Jwg529eBoR"


#This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.
class StdOutListener(StreamListener):

    def on_data(self, data):
        tweet=json.loads(data)
        try:
             with open('fetched_tweets.txt','a') as tf:
                 tf.write(tweet['text'].encode('utf-8'))
                 tf.write('\n')
        except KeyError:
            pass
        
        return True

    def on_error(self, status):
        print status


if __name__ == '__main__':

    #This handles Twitter authetification and the connection to Twitter Streaming API
    l = StdOutListener()
    auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    stream = Stream(auth, l)
    #stream.userstream(_with='followings')
    
    #This line filter Twitter Streams to capture data by the keywords: 'python', 'javascript', 'ruby'
    stream.filter(follow=['81083096','68927629'])