You've got the right idea. You're already searching against the hashtag. You just need to search against the tweet text. Use an additional rename to get the tweet text. Have a single search command like (hashtags=GameOf* OR hashtags=GOT OR tweet=GOT). ... View more

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. ... View more

That code looks about right to me. Where did you see the 1,000,000 character limit that you mention? ... View more

The Java result readers (including JSON) stream back results, so they aren't usually constrained by data size limits. JSON data has a limit of 1,000,000 characters in length. Did you find this limit with a single row, a single _raw value, the entire JSON stream, or something else? ... View more

So are you seeing the same error or a different one? I would not expect the original error from a login failure. Also, your last message says that curl worked but the prior one said it did not. So I'm a bit confused. ... View more

This error indicates that curl is failing due to an HTTPS certificate validation error. (curl is used by the PHP SDK when PHP <5.3.7 to fetch HTTP(S) URLs.) However the PHP SDK explicitly disables certificate validation in Http.php:159, so this error is rather unexpected: private function requestWithCurl( ... CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE, According to the PHP docs (http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, is not limited to any particular PHP version, so it is presumably available in PHP 5.3.3. Therefore it is probably getting passed through correctly to curl. Perhaps your curl is configured in some kind of strict mode that always performs certificate validation even when instructed not to? ... View more

What version of the Java SDK are you using? ... View more