def listen(keywords, output):
config = get_config()
start_time = time.time() #grabs the system time
auth = get_auth()
proxy = os.environ.get('https_proxy', None)
api = API(auth, proxy=proxy)
logger.info(
"Listening for messages with keywords: %s from Kuala Lumpur timezone" % (
','.join(keywords)
))
twitterStream = Stream(auth, Listener(api, output)) #initialize Stream object with a time out limit
twitterStream.api = api
while True:
try:
twitterStream.filter(track=keywords) #call the filter method to run the Stream Object
except FirehoseLimitExceeded, e:
traceback.print_exc()
logger.info("Firehose Limit Exceeded. Attempting to rebind")
time.sleep(5)
locationdb = couch.create(locationdatabase)
else:
locationdb = couch[locationdatabase]
if my_rank == 'vm2':
#STREAMER
while (True):
try:
twitter_stream = Stream(
auth,
MyListener(dbs=dbs,
args=args,
userdb=userdb,
locationdb=locationdb))
api = tweepy.API(auth)
twitter_stream.api = api
#This is the bounding box within which we want tweets
boundingbox = config['Stream']['Location']
boundingbox = boundingbox.split(',')
loc1 = float(boundingbox[0])
loc2 = float(boundingbox[1])
loc3 = float(boundingbox[2])
loc4 = float(boundingbox[3])
#Set up the stream
twitter_stream.filter(locations=[loc1, loc2, loc3, loc4])
except Exception as e:
print(e)
time.sleep(15)
pass
