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The search API is limited to 7 days. You can get a 1% firehose feed, too, so you can tell the relatively frequency of hashtags and stuff. All this is free and y
by MichaelGG 9y ago
The search API is limited to 7 days. You can get a 1% firehose feed, too, so you can tell the relatively frequency of hashtags and stuff. All this is free and you don't need user auth. User auth gives you extra rate limit increase (a separate bucket per user).
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limits https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limits
The big number for app auth is you can do 450 searches/15 minutes, with up to 100 tweets each. So last 10k on "honey" is easily doable (it's only 100 searches) so long as those 10K are within the last week.
For everything else they want you to buy their Gnip product.
- tpaschalis 9y ago(Shameless self plug) You might be able to use http://tweetstream.space http://tweetstream.space I created this tool, that isn't limited to 1-week-old tweets, uses the public feed, and outputs it to an easily parsed format.
- MichaelGG 9y agoOh wow, neat. Are you using the JS "api" they use for Twitter.com? Like emulating a browser?
- tpaschalis 9y agoYes, it mimics the browser Twitter Search, with its scroll loader. (Excuse any hiccups you might experience under load). It might not be ideal, but it works for the most part. Future plans include a proper API, as well as statistics and visualizations available to each search.
- MichaelGG 9y agoIs Twitter adversarial about it, like so they try to prevent people from doing that?
- tpaschalis 9y agoI don't really know, to be honest. Last time the app was on HN, there was a spike in usage, plus a few steady users each day, but I haven't noticed any restrictions yet.