hello , am trying to retrieve and get Arabic tweets , the problem the tweets i get , are encoded some thing like this \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddfc all arabic words , text or creator any , are encoded , how i get the arabic words it self , can i do something to solve the encoded problems , i want to retrieve arabic tweets gust like retrieve english tweets without any problem of encoded or Unicode .
so what can i do , and thanks in advance
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream
# Go to http://apps.twitter.com and create an app.
# The consumer key and secret will be generated for you after
consumer_key="xxx"
consumer_secret="xxx"
# After the step above, you will be redirected to your app's page.
# Create an access token under the the "Your access token" section
access_token="x-x"
access_token_secret="xxx"
class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
""" A listener handles tweets that are received from the stream.
This is a basic listener that just prints received tweets to stdout.
"""
def on_data(self, data):
print(data)
return True
def on_error(self, status):
print(status)
if __name__ == '__main__':
l = StdOutListener()
auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
stream = Stream(auth, l)
stream.filter(track=[str("الحرب")])
result :-
