Twitter API - get tweets with specific id

Question

I have a list of tweet ids for which I would like to download their text content. Is there any easy solution to do this, preferably through a Python script? I had a look at

Answer 1

You can access specific tweets by their id with the statuses/show/:id API route. Most Python Twitter libraries follow the exact same patterns, or offer 'friendly' names for the methods.

For example, Twython offers several show_* methods, including Twython.show_status() that lets you load specific tweets:

CONSUMER_KEY = ""
CONSUMER_SECRET = ""
OAUTH_TOKEN = ""
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "

and the returned dictionary follows the Tweet object definition given by the API.

The tweepy library uses tweepy.get_status():

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

tweet = api.get_status(id_of_tweet)
print(tweet.text)

where it returns a slightly richer object, but the attributes on it again reflect the published API.