TravelTweets.py

from TwitterSearch.TwitterSearch import *
import time
import os

if not os.path.exists('result'):
    os.mkdir('result')

f = open('USCities.txt', 'r')
cities = f.read().splitlines()  # read all lines into cities
for city in cities:
    try:
        tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
        tso.set_keywords(['#travel', '#holiday', '#vacation'], or_operator=True)
        tso.add_keyword(city)   # add the city name as one of the search keywords
        tso.set_language('en')  # we want to see English tweets only
        tso.set_count(100)  # search for 100 pages of tweets
        tso.set_result_type('mixed')    # search for both the popular and real-time tweets
        tso.set_include_entities(False)

        ts = TwitterSearch(
            consumer_key='aaabbb',
            consumer_secret='cccddd',
            access_token='112233',
            access_token_secret='445566'
        )

        def my_callback_closure(current_ts_instance):  # accepts ONE argument: an instance of TwitterSearch
            queries, tweets_seen = current_ts_instance.get_statistics()
            if queries > 0 and (queries % 5) == 0:  # trigger delay every 5th query
                time.sleep(60)  # sleep for 60 seconds

        filename = city + '.txt'
        f = open('./result/' + filename, 'w')
        for tweet in ts.search_tweets_iterable(tso, callback=my_callback_closure):
            if 'RT @' not in tweet['text']:
                f = open('./result/' + filename, 'a')
                f.writelines(['\n', tweet['text']])
                f.close()

    except TwitterSearchException as e:
        print(e)