Twitter search API results

Question

I'm using the Twitter API atom format

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Name&:)&since:year-month-date&rpp=1500

but it's only returning 100 tweets, I tried using the JSON format as well, but it only returned 100 results. Is there anything that I'm doing wrong to only get 100 results?

Answer 1

The Twitter Search API has changed, including in the naming of the parameters: for instance, rpp is now count and the page parameter was removed in favor of max_id, a parameter based on a timeline concept:

"To use max_id correctly, an application’s first request to a timeline endpoint should only specify a count. When processing this and subsequent responses, keep track of the lowest ID received. This ID should be passed as the value of the max_id parameter for the next request, which will only return Tweets with IDs lower than or equal to the value of the max_id parameter."

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/guides/working-with-timelines

The updated link to the Twitter search api is: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html

Remember that not all tweets are indexed and if you are using the non-commercial version, you are limited to a 7-day search.

Answer 2

My sugestion. Make a request to your API and retrieve 100 results by time. Use a loop to check if your result count is set to 100. if true, do a new request to page 2. test again and check the number of itens until the resultset is lower than 100.

Answer 3

Yes, you're limited on the number of results per page. In order to get more results, you have to use the page parameter like so:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Name&:)&since:year-month-date&rpp=1500&page=2

EDIT

rpp: the number of tweets to return per page, up to a max of 100. E.g.,

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=devo&rpp=15

page: the page number to return, up to a max of roughly 1500 results (based on rpp * page)

Source: http://search.twitter.com/api/

In other words your rpp won't work as you expect because the max is 100.