twitter-to-mongo

A python script that uses the Tweepy library to pull Tweets with specific keywords from Twitter's Streaming API, and then stores the important fields from the Tweet in a MongoDB collection.

What gets stored in MongoDB?

• The tweet ID
• The username of the tweet author
• The follower count of the tweet author
• The full body of the tweet
• Any hashtags used in the tweet
• The timestamp of the tweet's creation
• The language of the tweet

Dependencies:

(python -m pip install --upgrade pip)

• Tweepy 4.0.0(pip install tweepy)
• Pymongo( python -m pip install pymongo )
• MongoDB

5 minute setup (Assumes the dependencies are already installed):

• Have MongoDB installed on localhost, and create a database called TwitterStream
• Open the script and add the keywords or hashtags you want to track to the "keywords" variable
• Save it to your project folder or any easy to access folder
• Open your console and cd to the folder that you just put the script in
• Type the command $ python YOURSCRIPTNAME.py
• Watch as tweets hit the console in realtime, all while being stored in your database