How to filter only tweets from original user with `stream.filter(follow=['12345'])`

it looks like stream.filter(follow=['12345']) includes tweets at someone and RT, what’s the way to get tweets solely from that user?

[nelvintan]

Looking at Twitter’s API it seems like it is not possible to filter tweets from original user out.

My work around method:

1. I created a function that checks whether the status object is from original creator or not.
2. I will only print/save tweet if it is from the original creator.

def from_creator(status):
    if hasattr(status, 'retweeted_status'):
        return False
    elif status.in_reply_to_status_id != None:
        return False
    elif status.in_reply_to_screen_name != None:
        return False
    elif status.in_reply_to_user_id != None:
        return False
    else:
        return True

class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_status(self, status):
        if from_creator(status):
            try:
                # Prints out the tweet
                print(status.text)
                # Saves tweet into a file
                with open("Test.txt", 'a') as file:
                    file.write(status.text)
                return True
            except BaseException as e:
                print("Error on_data %s" % str(e))
            return True
        return True

    def on_error(self, status_code):
        if status_code == 420:
            print("Error 420")
            #returning False in on_error disconnects the stream
            return False

[sman-dk]

I had to write a few lines of code to filter it out my self. I did not find a solution for this in tweepy.