Pulling large number of tweets by id

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7856133

  •  10-02-2021
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Question

I have a list of 5500 tweet ids. For each tweet id, I'm downloading the associated tweet text. The ids are non-sequential and from many different users.

The only API option I see for pulling a specific tweet is GET statuses/show/:id.

That gives only a tweet at a time. With rate limiting of 350 API calls / hr, that means ~16 hrs to download the data.

Is there an API call or better technique that I'm missing?

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Solution

No. I'm afraid none. There's no way to bypass twitters 350 API Calls per hour for authenticated users.

OTHER TIPS

You can buy tweets from GNIP.

As far as I understood, Twitter API has an end point to fetch up to 100 tweets per request. You can find the details at: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/lookup I use tweepy's statuses_lookup method: http://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.1.0/api.html#timeline-methods So, you can retrieve tweets much faster than requesting one tweet at a time.

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