How to retrieve more than 100 results using Twitter4j

Question

I\'m using the Twitter4j library to retrieve tweets, but I\'m not getting nearly enough for my purposes. Currently, I\'m getting that maximum of 100 from one page. How do

Answer 1

Just keep track of the lowest Status id and use that to set the max_id for subsequent search calls. This will allow you to step back through the results 100 at a time until you've got enough, e.g.:

boolean finished = false;
while (!finished) {
    final QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);    

    final List statuses = result.getTweets();
    long lowestStatusId = Long.MAX_VALUE;
    for (Status status : statuses) {
        // do your processing here and work out if you are 'finished' etc... 

        // Capture the lowest (earliest) Status id
        lowestStatusId = Math.min(status.getId(), lowestStatusId);
    }

    // Subtracting one here because 'max_id' is inclusive
    query.setMaxId(lowestStatusId - 1);
}

See Twitter's guide on Working with Timelines for more information.