How to save a tweepy Twitter stream to a file?

Question

I have a working script that successfully gathers tweets that mention \"stackoverflow\". However, I want to run the script in iPython (rather than executive a separate .py f

Answer 1

You can do it by redirecting output to a file:

in Terminal/CMD just type python twitter_streaming.py > twitter_data.txt

for appending to an existing file use >> instead of >.