I want to gather all tweets from twitter within specified dates. Is it possible? Is there any way to achieve it? Currently I am able to retrieve my own tweets using twitter4j.
twitter api provides a search param called until. you can fetch tweets with until param then programmatically select tweets by their date.
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For example how could search for tweets using the #oldtweets sent on 5-29-16, from 8pm to 9pm.
According to the The Twitter Search API documentation, the query you want is not possible: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search
The Twitter Search API searches against a sampling of recent Tweets
published in the past 7 days.
Beyond the last 7 days, what you want to achieve can only be done through manually searching an account on Twitter.
Another alternative would be to use https://webrecorder.io/
Scroll to the timeframe you want to record or you can attempt to capture the entire feed. Note the auto scrolling option as well.
I am trying to get all tweets and comments related to specific topic by it's hashtag. I am able to use streaming API to get every new tweet with that hashtag, but my question is, if it is somehow possible to fetch also comments to those tweets? It doesn't need to be streaming API, but in REST API I can't find it as well.
Twitter currently doesn't allow you to get replies to a specific tweet. The best you can do is a search for #username and filter that by in_reply_to.
http://isitold.com/ somehow determines when a link/url was first tweeted. I can't seem to figure out how to do this with the twitter api, does anybody know?
I'd like to use when a link was first tweeted in a time decay function in my app.
You can search tweets with this link using the Twitter Search API to retrieve the oldest tweet possible.
Seems like twitter does not provide historical tweets (search api will not work).
You can get access to historical tweet information with a service like Topsy http://www.topsy.com http://code.google.com/p/otterapi/ (api on topsy).
I have written Who Tweeted It First using YQL and JS to find the oldest tweet for any topic. It is essentially scraping data from the Twitter search page as the official API doesn't return the previous tweets.
I want to get twitter timeline in specific area like Korea or Japan. etc.
Is there twitter api for this work?
thanks.
The closest solution to what you're looking for is using the place operator in the search API.
You will first need to lookup the location's place id, then provide it within the search query.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/places/finding-tweets-about-places
I'm looking for a workaround to this Published Twitter API bug: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214
When you fetch tweets, the tweet returns an incorrect User_id. However it does provide you with the correct Screen name.
My Goal is to use the API to do 2 things:
Fetch all the followers of my twitter account, this is trivial with the ruby script:
myfollowers = Twitter.follower_ids("justinzollars") (twitter gem)
corresponding to this api call: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/followers/ids
Save only tweets from an individual user. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search
The problem is the first api call returns user_ids, and the tweets search call returns from_user_id_str (user_name). I don't want to make tens of thousands of api calls, asking twitter for the user_id of each from_user_id_str that is returned from the tweets search api call.
How can I efficiently solve this problem?
The Search API isn't really the best tool for the job as far as retrieving a specific user's tweets is concerned. You should use the User Timeline for that task, which doesn't suffer the Search API's mismatched user ID issue: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline
If you were using the Search API though, the most efficient pattern for converting screen names in Search to user ids on Twitter would be to use bulk user lookup, which would allow you to convert roughly 100 screen names to fully hydrated user objects (complete with the "real" user id): https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/lookup