Using Twitter API with Postman, full-archive search

[dr_delle]

I am new to Postman and have successfully got started using the Twitter API v2 collection. I’m able to run a single query ‘from:ukhomeoffice’ and separately run a query using a keyword but understand I cannot run the two together. i.e. selecting x2 queries the response = “message”: “Duplicate parameters are not allowed: the query parameter”

What I’m looking to do is search for tweets from a particular user (in my case the UK home office) also containing a keyword. Is there a way to do this?

Many thanks!

[IgorBrigadir]

I would not use postman for this, it’s a good tool for making individual calls but not suited for data gathering. I recommend using twarc instead:

Help for beginners

I would begin here, to get the basics of setting up a command line utility up: Collect Twitter Data with Twarc! · Learn Twarc! That twarc tutorial doesn’t use the academic access endpoint, but it’s good practice to get familiar with using tools to get data. There are more tutorials here: Tutorials - twarc and a livestream recording here: TwitterDev: twarc2 and Academic Search - PeerTubeFR It will be better to use twarc2 for data crawling: to install twarc2, pip3 install --upgrade twarc then…

After setting up and configuring it, to get tweets from an account:

twarc2 search --archive "from:account (keyword OR keyword2 OR keyword3)" output.json

[dr_delle]

Thanks @IgorBrigadir. Am I right in thinking TWarc is for Python? I have basic skills in R but not Python. Also I am using the academic access endpoint

[IgorBrigadir]

Sure - you only need python installed, twarc works as a command line tool, so you don’t need any python programming at all. Twarc was built for exactly this - working with the academic access endpoint without writing code ( just terminal commands)

[dr_delle]

Thanks again @IgorBrigadir. I shall give TWarc a go!