Streaming not working about mastodon.py HOT 5 OPEN

I'm kind of confused by this - the tutorial you linked seems to just be... wrong, and I don't think that would have worked in any past version either.

What you want to do instead is something like (just from memory, didn't test, might not be 100% correct):

from mastodon.streaming import CallbackStreamListener

# ... setup ...

def handle_mention(notification):
    if notification.type == "mention":
        print(notification.status)

listener = CallbackStreamListener(notification_handler = handle_mention)
mastodon.stream_user(listener)

You might also want to look at run_async and reconnect_async if you want the stream to just run forever and reconnect if it loses connection.

You can find a full example of how to use the streaming API here: https://github.com/halcy/MastodonpyExamples/blob/bba210623a31d2f148ec4560669d22786e8102e3/01_latency_observatory/latencies.py

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thanks for the feedback and the example, closing as it's not an actual Issue ( :

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Did you get it working? If so, could you tell me if the snippet above was correct? I should probably ask the author of that tutorial to fix it

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hmm not really. Sorry, I should have made a proper test before closing it. I modified your code as follows using public stream:

from mastodon.streaming import CallbackStreamListener

# ... setup ...

hashtag="vegan"

def handle_mention(status):
    if hashtag in status.content.lower():
        print(status.content)
    else:
        print(status.content)

listener = CallbackStreamListener(notification_handler = handle_mention)
mastodon.stream_public(listener)

but it doesn't catch any use of the hashtag, nor in the else statement gives any output. It should be printing every toot in real time, right? i also tried with stream_hashtag using the tag parameter but with the same result

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For hashtags, you would want the on_update handler, so you'd want to modify that CallbackStreamListener line like so:

listener = CallbackStreamListener(update_handler = handle_mention)

That should make your code work and print all the statuses. You can have a look at the docs: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/10_streaming.html

but maybe that API just is a bit confusing, especially now that there are quite a few events, instead of just like, three, a few versions back. I wonder if we could add some simpler way where all events just go to one function.

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