profess1onal
/ replies.py
Created
April 29, 2020 13:17
— forked from edsu/replies.py
Try to get replies to a particular set of tweets, recursively.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| """ | |
| Twitter's API doesn't allow you to get replies to a particular tweet. Strange | |
| but true. But you can use Twitter's Search API to search for tweets that are | |
| directed at a particular user, and then search through the results to see if | |
| any are replies to a given tweet. You probably are also interested in the | |
| replies to any replies as well, so the process is recursive. The big caveat | |
| here is that the search API only returns results for the last 7 days. So |