Get user data by using Twitter Streaming API, Twitter Rest API

[Rana_Husni]

I do some analysis on twitter users features like number of following , number of retweet, number of friend , etc
I have all my information from Twitter Rest API
But there is an Rate Limit Exceeded error occurred when I tried to retrieve all data
can I have all these data from Twitter Streaming API , if I can , how I can you it?
If not what Is the Solution?

Thanks for Help

[isaach]

There’s no streaming API for user data, so you’ll have to stay under the rate limits provided by the REST API. Ensure that you’re using users/lookup and not users/show for bulk lookups—you’ll get better mileage that way.

How much data are you trying to retrieve?

[Rana_Husni]

Thanks for Reply
I do some analysis for information that related to user
for example , I need how many user retweet your post, make favorite on your post, reply to your post
so I trace all member’s following and for each member I trace all his statuses

because of that I have Limit exceeded error

I tried to apply sleep in thread but it give me the same error

so I didn’t know where is the solution

Rana

[isaach]

Yup, if you’re hitting the limits then you need to slow down your rate of requests.

Check the X-Rate-Limit-* headers of the API responses to guide you; they’ll indicate what the rate limit is, how much is remaining, and how long until you get another allocation of requests.

There’s also lots of information about rate limiting at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limiting.

[Rana_Husni]

Thanks for your response again , I will follow our guides

[andypiper]