Styjun

Below is the code I am trying to save the results I get from my print status to csv or json

# Creating the authentication object
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
# Setting your access token and secret
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
# Creating the API object while passing in auth information
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# The Twitter user who we want to get tweets from
name = "mytwitterid"
# Number of tweets to pull
tweetCount = 10

for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):
 # Process a single status
 print(status.text)

#result = 

with open('output.csv', 'w') as csvfile:
 csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile)
 for row in status.text():
 csvwriter.writerow(row)

This throws error for row in status.text():
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

You are just printing and discarding the things you loop over; after the for loop; status.text will only contain the last status. Try this instead:

with open('output.csv', 'w') as csvfile:
 csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile)
 for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):
 print(status.text)
 csvwriter.writerow([status.text])

If you want to collect the results into a list variable which you then dump out as a single JSON file, use append in the loop.

results = [] # start with an empty list
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):
 #print(status.text)
 results.append(status.text)

# Now dump results as JSON
with open('results.json', 'w') as outputfile:
 json.dump(results, outputfile)