Streaming Twitter

Install pycurl library

• Use a lab computer• From the course website

• Download the links from pycurl and twitter streamer

• Extract site-packages.zip, and you should see three files• curl (folder)• pycurl.pyd• pycurl_ssl-7.19.0-py2.7.egg-info

• Copy them• Go to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\, you should see a

single README.txt file there• Paste them there. This installs the pycurl library.

Run IDLE with Python 2.7.2

• Click Start• Type cmd in the "seasrch program or files" box• Click on cmd.exe• This is the command window. After the prompt, type

cd C:\Python27and Enter

• Then type python Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw

• This starts IDLE with Python 2.7.2. Go File->Open, and find twitter-stream.py that you downloaded.