I have a list of the specific status ids of tweets that I need to obtain. The tweepy documentation provides the following:
I can't work out how to use this or find any examples. Is this even the right thing?
My list of ids is 2240 items long and looks something like this:
response_ids = [717289507981107201, 717289501337509888, ..., 716684885411237888]
These ids were obtained from the 'in_response_to_status_id' field of tweets that I already have (I want to match the tweets I have to the tweets that they were written in response to).
I basically want to write something like
for id in response_ids: tweet = API.get_status(id)
Any help on how to do this, or advice about whether this is possible, much appreciated.
It is better to use the 'statuses_lookup' command. More infor in the below link http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/api.html#API.statuses_lookup
Before running the below program, get the consumer key and tokens.
import tweepy consumer_key = xxxx consumer_secret = xxxx access_token = xxxx access_token_secret = xxxx auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) api = tweepy.API(auth) tweets = api.statuses_lookup(id_list) # id_list is the list of tweet ids tweet_txt = [] for i in tweets: tweet_txt.append(i.text)
Think I've worked it out.
get_status does seem to be the right thing to use, although I initially had some problems with pagination errors. I've hacked some code found in response to another similar problem to come up with this solution:
def paginate(iterable, page_size): while True: i1, i2 = itertools.tee(iterable) iterable, page = (itertools.islice(i1, page_size, None), list(itertools.islice(i2, page_size))) if len(page) == 0: break yield page index = 0 for page in paginate(response_ids, 1): result = api.get_status(response_ids[index])._json index += 1
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