How to check whether a tweet has a summary card?

[grgersh]

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”)

[andypiper]

That’s not possible with any of the standard APIs (including the timeline APIs). You’d have to check for a URL in the Tweet entities, and then (speculatively) curl the target URL with the Twitterbot user-agent, checking for the existence of cards meta tags.

The Ads APIs, and the premium and enterprise APIs with URL enrichments, are more likely to indicate the presence of a card.

[LeBraat]