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Storing tweets in MongoDB using pymongo – Twitter API

I am trying to save tweets directly from Twitter into MongoDB for retrieval later, but I keep getting error messages with regards to json. Someone please help! Here is the sample codes with error messages.

searcher = keywordSearcher('','','') ## this is an object class
client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
db = client.test_dbase  ## connect to database twitter
collection = db.rio_olympics ## create a collection object
result = searcher.getTwitterComment('Olympics 2016', '21 August 2016', 2) ## this is where I query Twitter Search API

py_dict = json.load(result)
post_id = collection.insert_many(py_dict)

error message: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/edidiong/myWorkSpace/keywordSearchTest.py", line 12, in <module>
    class keywordSearchTest:
  File "/home/edidiong/myWorkSpace/keywordSearchTest.py", line 45, in keywordSearchTest
    py_dict = json.load(result)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 287, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'read'
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  1. 0

    Your searcher.getTwitterComment returns a dictionary and not json.

    That is why you get this error, json.load() is already called probably.

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  2. 0

    The error message indicates you are trying to load a dictionary object. This means you already have a dictionary object. I’m not sure what the point of the json.load would be even if it did work.

    So you can probably just do:

    py_dict = searcher.getTwitterComment("Olympics 2016", '21 August 2016', 2)
post_id = collection.insert_many(py_dict)
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