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dj antivaxx
dj antivaxx

Reputation: 301

How to get most popular tweets without query?

I'm using a Python API, and I want to retrieve the most popular tweets from Twitter, without a specific query. I'm want all popular tweets, not just those related to a certain search term.

api = twitter_connect()

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='query',result_type='popular').items(5):
    print(tweet.text)

Unfortunately, in the Twitter API, the query parameter is required. How can I fetch the most popular tweets independent of a search query?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1189

Answers (1)

chickity china chinese chicken
chickity china chinese chicken

Reputation: 8047

You may want to try the Twitter API trends/place endpoint. From the docs:

trends/place returns the top 50 trending topics for a specific WOEID (Yahoo! Where On Earth ID)

trends1 = api.trends_place(1) # Global information is available by using 1 as the WOEID .
data = trends1[0]
trends = data['trends']

for trend in trends[0:5]: # Get only the first 5 popular trending tweets
    print trend

output (example, at the time of this posting):

{u'url': u'http://twitter.com/search?q=%23GagaCoachella', u'query': u'%23GagaCoachella', u'tweet_volume': 83882, u'name': u'#GagaCoachella', u'promoted_content': None}
{u'url': u'http://twitter.com/search?q=%23FallonStylesSNL', u'query': u'%23FallonStylesSNL', u'tweet_volume': 538109, u'name': u'#FallonStylesSNL', u'promoted_content': None}
{u'url': u'http://twitter.com/search?q=%22Happy+Easter%22', u'query': u'%22Happy+Easter%22', u'tweet_volume': 485731, u'name': u'Happy Easter', u'promoted_content': None}
{u'url': u'http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bug%C3%BCnHay%C4%B1r%C3%87%C4%B1kacak', u'query': u'%23Bug%C3%BCnHay%C4%B1r%C3%87%C4%B1kacak', u'tweet_volume': 25544, u'name': u'#Bug\xfcnHay\u0131r\xc7\u0131kacak', u'promoted_content': None}
{u'url': u'http://twitter.com/search?q=%23JavierDuarte', u'query': u'%23JavierDuarte', u'tweet_volume': 67939, u'name': u'#JavierDuarte', u'promoted_content': None}

Refer to the documentation for more options to customize the query.

Upvotes: 2

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