Updating Twitter Streaming API in real time

ranjeevatwal75 · 2012-12-23T18:50:12.000Z

I’m using the tweepy module to access Twitter’s streaming API. What I’ve done previuosly is to define a set of keywords and insert them into a list terms[]:

streamer.filter(track = terms)

Would it be possible to update the list with new keywords WHILST the streamer.filter(track = terms) is running and so track is searching for keywords dynamically as opposed to an static list.

Thanks

BiddyLiddy · 2013-03-26T16:41:27.000Z

Ranjeev, did you get any further with this?

episod · 2013-03-26T19:31:56.000Z

You must reconnect to change the terms you are tracking with the Streaming API – there’s now way around it.

revathi_test · 2013-04-25T04:57:02.000Z

Even i want to know if we can use the ‘filter’ or ‘track’ in streaming api to search for keywords that we give dynamically. Pls do reply

episod · 2013-04-25T14:38:03.000Z

You would have to reconnect each time – there’s no way to dynamically change the keywords of an already open connection.

BoldWall · 2013-04-26T16:27:56.000Z

I’m trying this as well. So I stop the stream, update the tracks and start it again.
But it works only for 2 times.
The 3rd time the stream does not get initialized.
I have to stop the application and start it again.
Is this a limitation of twitter?