App for Twitter Data: How to change the api call to add URL arguments?

[nileena]

I downloaded the App for Twitter Data. As of now, the script stream_tweets.py is feeding live twitter data into my Splunk instance. What do I edit in order to filter the stream and index only the tweets that contain certain words or hashtags? Basically, I want to add an API request parameter. Please help!

[davidfstr]

• Locate the API call to Twitter in stream_tweets.py. Determine the API URL it is hitting.
• Locate the docs for that API URL in Twitter's API docs.
• Look for a parameter or similar to that API that performs the filtering you want.
• Alter stream_tweets.py to make the API call with the altered parameters.
• Test it.