Streaming tweets using Twython keeps breaking with chunkedencodingerror

Question

I'm relatively new to programming but just trying to get a feel with working for apis/data by pulling tweets from twitter using the Twython twitter wrapper. every time I do this I get the following error messages around 5,000 tweets. I can use the streaming with other wrappers, like python-twitter and get much farther ~800,000 tweets without a similar error.

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ChunkedEncodingError                      Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-fdcf34f23648> in <module>()
      1 #[stream.statuses.filter(track='twitter')]
----> 2 stream.statuses.sample()

/Users/myusername/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twython/streaming/types.pyc in sample(self, **params)
     75         url = 'https://stream.twitter.com/%s/statuses/sample.json' \
     76               % self.streamer.api_version
---> 77         self.streamer._request(url, params=params)
     78 
     79     def firehose(self, **params):

/Users/myusername/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twython/streaming/api.pyc in _request(self, url, method, params)
    132             response = _send(retry_counter)
    133 
--> 134             for line in response.iter_lines(self.chunk_size):
    135                 if not self.connected:
    136                     break

/Users/myusername/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.pyc in iter_lines(self, chunk_size, decode_unicode)
    643 
    644         for chunk in self.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size,
--> 645                                        decode_unicode=decode_unicode):
    646 
    647             if pending is not None:

/Users/myusername/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.pyc in generate()
    616                         yield chunk
    617                 except IncompleteRead as e:
--> 618                     raise ChunkedEncodingError(e)
    619             except AttributeError:
    620                 # Standard file-like object.

ChunkedEncodingError: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read, 1 more expected)

The code I'm using to generate this follows. I'm sure it's missing a lot including a way to handle this particular exception.

from twython import TwythonStreamer
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from requests.exceptions import ChunkedEncodingError

counter = 0
class MyStreamer(TwythonStreamer):
    def on_success(self, data):
        global counter
        #if 'text' in data:
            #print data['text'].encode('utf-8')
        counter+=1
        print counter

    def on_error(self, status_code, data):
        print status_code

        # Want to stop trying to get data because of the error?
        # Uncomment the next line!
        # self.disconnect()

stream = MyStreamer(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)
stream.statuses.sample()

Basically, right now I'm not even trying to do something with the tweets because I just want to see if I can get this to work without the error.

Answer 1

Well, I didn't figure out what's causing the error, but if I change the last lines of code it can work. Like this:

def streamed():
    while True:
        try:
            stream = MyStreamer(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)
            stream.statuses.filter(track='twitter', stall_warnings=True)
        except  ChunkedEncodingError:
            continue

streamed()

This gets the streamer going again when it errors. I also had to add

return True

to the functions in the mystreamer class.

This answer also helped from before: How to restart tweepy script in case of error?