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lasec0203
lasec0203

Reputation: 2683

adding parameters to tweepy api request

How does one set the parameters for a request to twitter via tweepy's api.

#https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?exclude_replies=true&include_rts=false
import tweepy

#assume tokens and secrets are declared

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

status = api.user_timeline('xxxxxxxxx')

What I get back from this is the "tweets and retweets" from the user inside a collection of Status objects, but I only want the user's "tweets" returned. After reading the docs, it's still unclear to me on how to modify the request url

Upvotes: 1

Views: 555

Answers (1)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 8217

I've found success just filtering the json object returned from user_timeline.

This will filter out the user's retweets:

for tweetObj in status:
    if hasattr(tweetObj, 'retweeted_status'):
        continue
    else:        
        print tweetObj #or whatever else you want to do

But to answer your question, you can pass the optional parameter, include_retweets like so:

status = api.user_timeline('xxxxxxxxx', include_retweets=False)

I like the first method better because the RTs still count against your count & maximum length parameters.

Upvotes: 1

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