How can I return sentiment value from Tweepy class and Pass it to Giphy API

Question

I'm using the tweepy API and want to return the data found, pass it to the Giphy API function and use it as a query for the giphy search.

class TweetStreamListener(StreamListener):
     # on success
    def on_data(self, data):
     # decode json
        dict_data = json.loads(data)
     # pass tweet into TextBlob
        tweet = TextBlob(dict_data["text"])
     # output sentiment polarity
        print (tweet.sentiment.polarity)
     # determine if sentiment is positive, negative, or neutral
        if tweet.sentiment.polarity < 0:
            sentiment = "negative"
        elif tweet.sentiment.polarity == 0:
            sentiment = "neutral"
        else:
            sentiment = "positive"
    # output sentiment
        print (sentiment)
        return(sentiment)

The sentiment value above is what I want to return from the class and pass to the GIPHY API Functions

# Giphy API Functions
def setup():
   url = api + apiKey + query
   print("Getting data with query 'sentiment'")
   json.loads(url, my_callback)
def my_callback(data):
  print("Data recieved!")
  print(data.data[0].images.original.url)

I was thinking of creating a new file for the giphy functions but can I add them to this one?

NOTE: I thought the following line would return the sentiment value

    query = "&q=" + str(TweetStreamListener.on_data)
    print(query)

NOTE: Instead I was given this,"&q=function TweetStreamListener.on_data at 0x1065c3268"

Answer 1

The on_data method takes one argument but you try to print the method itself and not the result. I am not familiar with the TweetStream api but you should have a look at this: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/streaming-data-python/