I just tried it and very few tweets has the .getPlace and .getGeoLocation data available in it.
[image: Inline image 1] I guess this is more of an issue with the twitter api. Thanks Best Regards On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Jo Sunad <naidnitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Akhil, but I can't seem to get any tweets that include location > data. For example, when I do stream.filter(status => > status.getPlace().getName) and run the code for 20 minutes I only get null > values.It seems like Twitter might purposely be removing the Place for free > users? > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com> > wrote: > >> That's because sometime getPlace returns null and calling getLang over >> null throws up either null pointer exception or noSuchMethodError. You need >> to filter out those statuses which doesn't include location data. >> >> Thanks >> Best Regards >> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Jo Sunad <naidnitr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to filter for GeoLocation, Place or even Time Zone and >>> I keep getting null values. I think I got one Place in 20 minutes of the >>> app running (without any filters on tweets). >>> >>> Is this normal? Do I have to try querying rather than filtering? >>> >>> my code is following TD's example... >>> >>> val stream = TwitterUtils.... >>> >>> val hashtags = stream.map (status => status.getPlace().getName(), >>> status.getText()) >>> >>> getText, getFollowers, etc all work fine, I just don't get anything >>> location based (and getLang() for some reason throws a noMethodError). >>> >>> Thanks for the help! >>> >> >> >
