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That's categorically not the case - the index for the search API has always been around 7 days since Twitter acquired Summize (which is where the search API cam
by andypiper 9y ago
That's categorically not the case - the index for the search API has always been around 7 days since Twitter acquired Summize (which is where the search API came from). There was never an artificial limitation such as the one you're describing. From the page you're linking to from the archive:
"The Search API is not complete index of all Tweets, but instead an index of recent Tweets. At the moment that index includes between 6-9 days of Tweets."
Scraping the Twitter website is against the terms of service and may result in permanent suspension of access.
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- me_bx 9y agoMy bad, my memory failed me, I thought remembering being able to perform search on the historical tweets via the search endpoint.
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- gboudrias 9y ago> Scraping the Twitter website is against the terms of service and may result in permanent suspension of access. Scraping is always against the ToS, so no surprise there. I doubt it's really ever stopped anyone.
- oculusthrift 9y agoi would imagine it stops researchers.. who usually try do things legit
- iagovar 9y agoIt does. We contacted them seeking academic discounts, and there wasn't. I was in a little university in Spain. No one is going to drop 20k like that.
- cisanti 9y ago> Scraping the Twitter website is against the terms of service and may result in permanent suspension of access. And what is Twitter gonna do about it? I never sign the TOS and scrape as much as I want.
- iamthirsty 9y ago> may result in permanent suspension of access A.k.a.: they will try their best to IP ban you.
- b4lancesh33t 9y agoAnd then if you circumvent that, perhaps bring charges under CFAA.
- manquer 9y agoWould work only if you are based in US thou
- xgbi 9y agoYeah screw people accessing public information...
- iamthirsty 9y agoWell, that’s kinda the whole point. They don’t feel like it is truly public information. You gotta give something in return.
- williamscales 9y agoI wonder if this has changed in light of the recent LinkedIn decision?
- keiyakins 9y agoSo is using it to incite violence. The Twitter tos isn't worth the paper it's written on.
- jalfresi 9y agoScraping is how the web works. After all, retweets are essentially manual scrapes