#1

I’m trying to fetch tweets which contain a certain word(s) and display them on my website in the order of their publish datetimes.

The url I’m using for the standard search API looks like this:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=nature&result_type=recent&count=100&tweet_mode=extended

But there might be some accounts whose tweets are spammy or are of little to no use to me. Is it possible to exclude their tweets during the searching? I couldn’t find a parameter for doing that in the standard search API’s documentation.

Although I can remove their tweets from the results returned by Twitter, that would make the result count less than 100 (my ideal result count).

#2

You may have been looking for this page: Using standard search | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

use the - operator to negate or exclude something. eg: nature -from:NatGeo nature tweets but excluding results from @NatGeo

I find it’s useful to use the https://twitter.com/search-advanced advanced search to build a query string i can take from the URL

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#3

Thanks for the resources. So according the advanced search’s format, I guess the following url excludes tweets from FirstAccount and SecondAccount:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=nature%20%28-from%3AFirstAccount%20-from%3ASecondAccount%29

The value of the q parameter above is the encoded version of nature (-from:FirstAccount -from:SecondAccount).

Would you please help check if it’s correct?

#4

I don’t think you need the parentheses () - just add the two negative account parameters to the main query.

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#5

@andypiper Thanks. I will go with the following url then:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=nature%20-from%3AFirstAccount%20-from%3ASecondAccount

Thank you all again! :slight_smile:

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