Is there any way to get tweets in a particular time frame without using any hashtag or word?

[vivalasocialpsy]

Hello to everyone.

I just want to get tweets using filters without any specific word or hashtag. I wonder if there is a function like that on Twitter’s premium API account? I also wonder if we can use a filter in hour/minute/second for determining the time period.

Thanks in advance.

[hmz]

Hi @vivalasocialpsy! Thank you for your message. If I understand you correctly, your post has two parts:

I just want to get tweets using filters without any specific word or hashtag. I wonder if there is a function like that on Twitter’s premium API account?

I’m not sure if I understand your question here. What kind of tweets are you trying to get back, or if you’re not 100% sure, what is an example use-case? Did you want the tweets in real-time or all in one payload? If you let me know this, I’ll be better able to point you in the right direction.

I also wonder if we can use a filter in hour/minute/second for determining the time period.

Correct, if you are using the Search API (for example) you’ll be able to set the time period down to the exact second of your search. The format for this is in YYYYMMDDHHmmss. This is available for products like the Search API.

More information on our different Premium APIs can be found here.

Hamza

[vivalasocialpsy]

Hi Hamza, first of all, thank you very much for your concern.

In the first part of my question, I mean, for example, downloading 10,000 tweets shared on 2017-10-7 and instead of filter these twits with specific hashtag or word, just filter with location and language parameters.

Secondly, I can make the date filter as year / month / day when I’m currently trying with the free (standart) account before buying premium. But I get an error when I enter a date filter in the same way as your (YYYYMMDDHHmmss). Is the minute and seconds filter only for premium? (I am working in R for using searh api)

finally I want to add a little question. Is it possible to download a certain number of twits from a historical date (e.g. from 2015-05-10 to 2015-05-11) randomly instead of sorting by time?

[LeBraat]

Hey @vivalasocialpsy

In the first part of my question, I mean, for example, downloading 10,000 tweets shared on 2017-10-7 and instead of filter these twits with specific hashtag or word, just filter with location and language parameters.

If you are using the standard search/tweets endpoint, you are required to pass along a query along with the optional geocode, lang, or locale parameters.

If you are using the premium Search API, you have more flexibility in the operators that you use. You will be able to search with several location operators as standalones, and can use the the lang: operator as long as it is used in conjunction with one of our other standalone operators.

Secondly, I can make the date filter as year / month / day when I’m currently trying with the free (standart) account before buying premium. But I get an error when I enter a date filter in the same way as your (YYYYMMDDHHmmss). Is the minute and seconds filter only for premium? (I am working in R for using searh api)

The YYYYMMDDHHmmss format is used with the toDate: and fromDate: operators that are used with the premium Search API. You will be using the until parameter with YYYY-MM-DD parameter with the standard search/tweets endpoint. Minute and second filter is only available with premium.

finally I want to add a little question. Is it possible to download a certain number of twits from a historical date (e.g. from 2015-05-10 to 2015-05-11) randomly instead of sorting by time?

When using the Full Archive version of the premium or enterprise version of the Search API, you will be able to pull a certain number of Tweets from a historical date range. However, it will be served in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent Tweet that matches your query.

[vivalasocialpsy]

@LeBraat I m so grateful for your help. It was a challenging but you made it easier. Thank you very much. To be honest, I did not expect such quick and satisfying answers on this platform. Now I will purchase premium API without any suspicion.
That’s very kind of you.

[LeBraat]

Glad I could help!

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