Unescape stream data from Twitter

diff --git a/tweepy/streaming.py b/tweepy/streaming.py
index fc3e7c556c9725794ccf5731ccb8d89e7643f64c..187b14dc054a1c107288f84e3db7f7651194615b 100644 (file)
--- a/tweepy/streaming.py
+++ b/tweepy/streaming.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import requests
 from requests.exceptions import Timeout
 from threading import Thread
 from time import sleep
+from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 import ssl
 
 from tweepy.models import Status
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ class StreamListener(object):
         Override this method if you wish to manually handle
         the stream data. Return False to stop stream and close connection.
         """
-        data = json.loads(raw_data)
+        data = json.loads(HTMLParser().unescape(raw_data))
 
         if 'in_reply_to_status_id' in data:
             status = Status.parse(self.api, data)