tweepy streaming API doesn't work in GAE

[Weiliang Wang]

I am working on a course term project which involves getting instant tweets and I work with Google App Engine.

Seems tweepy works fine in GAE, so I choose it. But when I use the steaming API function as follows, the program just stuck there and cannot get a single tweets until the time is out.

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streaming_api = tweepy.streaming.Stream( auth, CustomStreamListener(), timeout = 60)               

search_tweet = streaming_api.filter(follow = None, track = ['I'])

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When I use searching API: search_tweet = api.search(q = keyword, result_type = "recent", count = 100, lang = 'en')

it works fine, but it's not my intended thing.

I cannot figure out what is happening. Does anyone have an idea about that? Thanks so much!

[steve olechowski]

GAE doesn't support listen sockets only outbound sockets (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/sockets/).  You'll have to use Google Compute Engine or Heroku or similar.

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