How to add a location filter to tweepy module

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The streaming API doesn’t allow to filter by location AND keyword simultaneously.

Bounding boxes do not act as filters for other filter parameters. For example
track=twitter&locations=-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8 would match any tweets containing
the term Twitter (even non-geo tweets) OR coming from the San Francisco area.

Source: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/parameters#locations

What you can do is ask the streaming API for keyword or located tweets and then filter the resulting stream in your app by looking into each tweet.

If you modify the code as follows you will capture tweets in United Kingdom, then those tweets get filtered to only show those that contain “manchester united”

import sys
import tweepy

consumer_key=""
consumer_secret=""
access_key=""
access_secret=""

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)


class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
    def on_status(self, status):
        if 'manchester united' in status.text.lower():
            print status.text

    def on_error(self, status_code):
        print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered error with status code:', status_code
        return True # Don't kill the stream

    def on_timeout(self):
        print >> sys.stderr, 'Timeout...'
        return True # Don't kill the stream

sapi = tweepy.streaming.Stream(auth, CustomStreamListener())    
sapi.filter(locations=[-6.38,49.87,1.77,55.81])

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