Ignoring Retweets When Streaming Twitter Tweets

I am trying to run a simple script that will stream live Tweets. Several attempts to filter out retweets have been unsuccessful. I still get manual retweets (with the text 'RT @')

Solution 1:

What you could do is create another function to call inside of the on_status in your StreamListener. Here is something that worked for me:

defanalyze_status(text):
    if'RT'in text[0:3]:
        print("This status was retweeted!")
        print(text)
    else:
        print("This status was not retweeted!")
        print(text)

classMyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
    defon_status(self, status):
        analyze_status(status.text)
    defon_error(self, status_code):
        print(status_code)

myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()
myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth=twitter_api.auth, listener=myStreamListener)
myStream.filter(track=['Trump'])

That yields the following:

This status was not retweeted!
@baseballcrank @seanmdav But they won't, cause Trump's name is on it. I can already hear their stupidity, "I hate D… 
This status was retweeted!
RT @OvenThelllegals: I'm about to end the Trump administration with a single tweet
This status was retweeted!
RT @kylegriffin1: FLASHBACK: April 2016

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: "Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy?"

TRUMP: "I do. I do. Inc… 

This is not the most elegant solution, but I do believe it addresses the issue that you were facing.