Whenever I create a status stream object I start streaming information from the twitter API. If I want to do a method to stop the stream what would be the way of doing so? The method I need some help with is stopStream() which would stop the twitter stream whenever that method is called.
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream
import time
import json
import csv
import sys
import Tweet
import DatabaseInteractor
import twitter_credentials
class StatusStream(StreamListener):
def __init__(self):
self.continueStream = True
super(StatusStream, self).__init__()
def on_status(self, status):
print(status.text)
if(self.continueStream ==False):
return False
def on_error(self, status):
print(status)
return False
@staticmethod
def stopStream():
self.continueStream = False
auth = OAuthHandler(twitter_credentials.API_KEY,twitter_credentials.API_SECRET_KEY)
auth.set_access_token(twitter_credentials.ACCESS_TOKEN,twitter_credentials.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
twitterStream = Stream(auth=auth, listener=StatusStream(),tweet_mode='extended')
twitterStream.filter(track=["plumber","visa","bathtub"])
