main.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import yaml
from tweepy.streaming import StreamListener
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream


with open('config.yaml', 'r') as f:
    config = yaml.load(f)

consumer_key = config["consumer_key"]
consumer_secret = config["consumer_secret"]
access_token = config["access_token"]
access_token_secret = config["access_token_secret"]

class StdOutListener(StreamListener):
    """ A listener handles tweets are the 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=['basketball'])