I am using rails and the Twitter gem. I want to display a list of, say 10, latest tweets or mentions of my twitter user. I have had a look at home_timeline but this returns all the content. I want to limit that to what is seen if I click on the "Tweets" section of my profile.
How should I go about this because I'm lost in the myriad of developer documentation and am unsure how to proceed?
You should use the statuses/user_timeline resource from the API:
Returns the 20 most recent statuses posted by the authenticating user.
See Twitter's documentation on it's REST API for more information on all available resources.
Using the Twitter GEM for Rails, use
Twitter.user_timeline('stackexchange')
This is for 20 statuses. For restricting count to 10.
Twitter.user_timeline('stackexchange', :count => 10)
I hope this helps.
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I started using Twitter's V2 API and the tweet/:id/liking_users endpoint returns only a recent 100 likings.
Is there a way to get a list of all users that liked a tweet?
No, the API only supports accessing the most recent 100 liking users.
Updated response 20th Jan 2022:
This has just been announced in the Twitter API v2.
Previously, you were limited to the 100 most recent Likes or Retweets with these endpoints. We heard your feedback that this was too limiting and have updated these endpoints to now return all results. To retrieve a complete list of Likes and Retweets, you can now use pagination.
Now, you can use the v2 Likes lookup endpoint: GET /2/tweets/:id/liking_users and get the full list (with pagination).
With https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline I can get 3,200 most recent tweets. However, certain sites like http://www.mytweet16.com/ seems to bypass the limit, and my browse through the API documentation could not find anything.
How do they do it, or is there another API that doesn't have the limit?
You can use twitter search page to bypass 3,200 limit. However you have to scroll down many times in the search results page. For example, I searched tweets from #beyinsiz_adam. This is the link of search results:
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abeyinsiz_adam&src=typd&f=realtime
Now in order to scroll down many times, you can use the following javascript code.
var myVar=setInterval(function(){myTimer()},1000);
function myTimer() {
window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);
}
Just run it in the FireBug console. And wait some time to load all tweets.
The only way to see more is to start saving them before the user's tweet count hits 3200. Services which show more than 3200 tweets have saved them in their own dbs. There's currently no way to get more than that through any Twitter API.
http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-way-to-get-more-than-3200-tweets-from-a-twitter-user-using-Twitters-API-or-scraping
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/276
Note from that second link: "…the 3,200 limit is for browsing the timeline only. Tweets can always be requested by their ID using the GET statuses/show/:id method."
I've been in this (Twitter) industry for a long time and witnessed lots of changes in Twitter API and documentation. I would like to clarify one thing to you. There is no way to surpass 3200 tweets limit. Twitter doesn't provide this data even in its new premium API.
The only way someone can surpass this limit is by saving the tweets of an individual Twitter user.
There are tools available which claim to have a wide database and provide more than 3200 tweets. Few of them are followersanalysis.com, keyhole.co which I know of.
You can use a tool I wrote that bypasses the limit.
It saves the Tweets in a JSON format.
https://github.com/pauldotknopf/twitter-dump
You can use a Python library snscrape to do it. Or you can use ExportData tool to get all tweets for the user, which returns already preprocessed CSV and spreadsheet files. The first option is free, but has less information and requires more manual work.
My site needs the Twitter equivalent of the Facebook Comments plugin... You may be aware of the fact that Twitter only searches back about a week, so comments would be lost just a few days after being made! Is there a service that would allow me to show the tweets that contain the given page's unique #hashtag? I'm looking to put together a system that searches for the hashtag and puts those tweets up for display, even if the tweets are old. Does anyone know how to make this possible? I'm not that good of a programmer, FYI...
No. The Twitter Search API will not let you search that far back.
The Search API is not complete index of all Tweets, but instead an index of recent Tweets. At the moment that index includes between 6-9 days of Tweets.
You cannot use the Search API to find Tweets older than about a week.
From https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search
We are working on some analytics using the amount a user is retweeted or mentioned... I can't seem to find a way to get these numbers using the apis does anyone have any ideas?
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name={screen_name}&count={count}
it's important to include the line include_entities=true to the request. This will give you an expanded response including re-tweet and mention counts.
Get Status / User Timeline
Twitter API Console
Update:
to get tweets from the last 90 days, there is a Node.js library you can use called Snapbird
https://github.com/remy/snapbird
.. and here is another resource covering the same topic.
http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-search/10-ways-and-20-features-for-searching-old-tweets/
For some reason, when searching on one specific Twitter user, the search API return nothing. (ie http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+from%3ATWITTERHANDLE_A) TWITTERHANDLE_A here is the Twitter account name. This user has been active for over a month, has had many RTs, #s and has sent such tweets out as well.
Meanwhile, I created a new Twitter account - we will call it TWITTERHANDLE_B. Immediately after I created the account, I sent 1 tweet and performed the same search as above (http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+from%3ATWITTERHANDLE_B)
The tweet was returned.
Is there ANYWAY to find out if and/or why a particular user would be blocked from search results? Thanks so much for any help... I'm going crazy here. Twitter's documentation just says sometimes a user's tweets won't be searched!
The documentation you refer to has a link to this page:
http://support.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646
The bottom entry addresses your issue, hopefully you can fix it that way.
Bear in mind the search API only grabs results from the last couple of weeks, so if the user hasn't tweeted in a while then there won't be any results.
You could try not using the Search API and grab the results directly:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/-username-.json
Works fine for http requests at least... >_<