'Request exceeds account’s current package request limits

[bici_sancta]

Hi,

Just want to see if I am understanding this correctly. Just opened an account to use the Full-Archive search. I am trying to do a study of tweets across a few years in a specific geo-location. Based on initial GETs, looks like about 500 tweets/day in location in which I am interested.

I have never done this before and experimented quite a bit just to learn how to use the api. Now that I have a somewhat working python script to begin to pull the data that I want, I find that I exceeded the 50 requests / month for the free premium account.

So, if I want to have access to one year’s worth of tweets from one locality, I should expect ~5 requests for each days tweets (at 100 tweet limit / request) * 365 days / year = 1825 total requests. This means it will take me 36 months to extract 1 year of tweets ? (at free subscription).
Do I understand this correctly ?

Since this is intended as one-time data pull to support an educational study (completely non-commercial), is there a different way for me to access this data set ?
Appreciate any advice.
Thanks.

[Connexinet]

Your assessment is correct. But ideally you should upgrade your package for 1 month to get all the data you need:

1. The paid packages give you 500 tweets per API call (vs 100 for sandbox), so you need to make far less requests
2. I think you can get the amount of tweets you need in < 400 requests, this costs $399/month. I know you are doing this for non-commercial purpose but few hundred dollars should be worth your time. Prior to the premium API this was impossible to do without Enterprise API access (which costs thousands of dolars)
3. The sandbox mode doesn’t support geo location very well

[bici_sancta]

@Connexinet : Thanks … will consider your advice. Appreciate your response.

[Connexinet]

My pleasure! I am glad I could be of help

[LeBraat]