How do I save streaming tweets in json via tweepy?

Question

I\'ve been learning Python for a couple of months through online courses and would like to further my learning through a real world mini project.

For this project,

Answer 1

I found a way to save the tweets to a json file. Happy to hear how it can be improved!

# initialize blank list to contain tweets
tweets = []
# file name that you want to open is the second argument
save_file = open('9may.json', 'a')

class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
    def __init__(self, api):
        self.api = api
        super(tweepy.StreamListener, self).__init__()

        self.save_file = tweets

    def on_data(self, tweet):
        self.save_file.append(json.loads(tweet))
        print tweet
        save_file.write(str(tweet))