Extracting text from summary cards

[grgersh]

Example: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/overview/summary.html

How do I retrieve the text “History of #TBT on Twitter” from this tweet? I am using Python.

I want to get retrieve this information from sources such as Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[andypiper]

There’s no API provided that would enable you to get this card data from a Tweet. You’d have to go to crawl the originating site and grab the contents of the twitter:description or og:description meta tag.

[grgersh]

Thank you for your response!

[grgersh]

I found this, does this say you can extract the title of the summary card?

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/intro-to-tweet-json

Does not seem to be working for me anyway, though.

[andypiper]

Yes, if you are using a premium or enterprise API with the URL entity enrichment then you could get that information, but that field is not served from the standard API endpoints.

[grgersh]

Thanks for your help, Andy. Do you mind answering this question as well?

How to check whether a tweet has a summary card?

username = “@PopSci” #Get last [count] tweets of specified user theTimeline = api.user_timeline(screen_name = username, count = 10, tweet_mode=‘extended’, include_rts = False, include_entities=True, exclude_replies=True) for tweet in theTimeline: WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO: if tweet.hasCard: print(“True”) else: print(“False”)

I appreciate your expertise.

[LeBraat]