I've been looking on the internet for a way to follow a random user on Twitter in a while loop. While I've seen the loop you can use to find tweets (and then do something), how do you find users?
Tweepy library has an API search_users(q) to retrieve the first 1000 matches based on the query 'q'.
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I'm trying to pull tweets from a user's timeline in real-time. I then want to do some analysis on those tweets. Having read the docs it looks like I will need to use tweepy.Stream for this use case. I've done the following:
stream.filter(follow='25073877')
But Twitter's filter API states the following:
Tweets created by the user.
Tweets which are retweeted by the user.
Replies to any Tweet created by the user.
Retweets of any Tweet created by the user.
Manual replies, created without pressing a reply
button (e.g. “#twitterapi I agree”).
It seems that this will return a huge volume of tweets that aren't relevant to my use case. Do I have to use this approach and then filter by screen name to get only tweets by the real user? This doesn't seem right at all.
The alternative seems to be the api.user_timeline class but that isn't a streaming API. Do I therefore use this API and hit it every second? I can't seem to find suitable examples of how best to accomplish my use case.
Yes, you'll need to filter either by screen_name or maybe you can check if it's a retweet or not.
I wouldn't recommend the second approach since you'll be getting an even bigger amount of tweets since you'll have to filter out the tweets you already received in previous requests plus you may hit the API querying limits if you don't time ti properly.
That's the signature of the filter function:
def filter(self, follow=None, track=None, is_async=False, locations=None,
stall_warnings=False, languages=None, encoding='utf8', filter_level=None)
Which maps to this Twitter API request.
And here the explanation of the parameters.
I'm new to Python and am very confused on how to begin this assignment:
Write Python code to connect to Twitter search API at:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json
with at least the following parameters:
q for a search topic of your interest;
count to 100 for 100 records
to retrieve twitter data and assign the data to a variable.
I already created the app to access Twitter's API. Thanks.
I had this same issue. According to Twitter, you must register an account to even use basic search features of public tweets and there is no way around it. I followed the guide for the complete setup here and can confirm it works
Edit: the article is for php, but changing it to python shouldn’t be very difficult. It has all the methods outlined in the article
Just as a hint, you might want to use tweepy for this. They have very good documentation and its much easier than trying to reinvent the wheel.
I am trying to use Twitter API with the Python wrapper Twython and I want to retrieve all replies (the comments below a tweet) to a certain tweet find using some patterns.
At the moment to achieve this, I perform the search of a string, I retrieve the screen_name field of user field in the response, related to the original tweets and then I use again the API in order to search the latest tweets directed to the user, using in the query the substring to:screen_name.
Is there a better solution? The only questions related to this topic that I found were written in '14 and I hope that, in the mean time, there were some improvements.
I want to setup a bot, which will read tweets from a twitter user and store. I can find several examples on search for particular key words, post ID etc.
Can any one recommend which api call is required for monitoring one particular user?
use tweepy for data mining from twitter https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
The Twitter API call you would use is statuses/user_timeline. The documentation is here.
Some python examples to get you started with using Twitter are here.
So I am doing fairly trivial task of retrieving tweets from a particular user. What I really want to do is to count how many times each of his tweets have been retweeted. I have looked at python's tweepy's API, and I have not been able to find a clear answer. Is there a way to do this in python?
tweepy, might not have method for every endpoint in the twitter API.
tweepy should allow you to call an arbitrary endpoint, though. When in doubt, you can check out the official twitter API to see what is offered.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
It appears that you might only be able to get 100 retweets for a given tweet_id
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/retweets/%3Aid
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/retweeters/ids