Python

Standard API, free, recent Tweets published in the past 7 days

Premium API, pay as you go, advanced filtering functionality and scalable access to the the Search Tweets API, free and paid, access to either the last 30 days of Tweets or access to Tweets from as early as 2006

Enterprise-level, paid subscription, access to Twitter data, including real-time Tweets and public account information, historical Tweets, and Tweet insights, access to either the last 30 days of Tweets or access to Tweets from as early as 2006

Authentication

OAuth2, is for developers that just need read-only to access public information
OAuth 1.0a, allows an authorized app to act on behalf of a user.

Create App
- Create Twitter App
- Developer Agreement
- Create App
- Genearte Access Token
Setup one or more development environment
- Search Tweets: 30-DaysSandbox
- Search Tweets: Full ArchiveSandbox
- Account Activity APISandbox
Start using the endpoints

Create App, get customer API keys, generate access token

Search

curl with API keys and access tokens
twurl
TwitterAPI

Sample Code with TwitterAPI

Download 100 tweets each request
More requests may return the random different 100 random tweets
Too many requests with a 15-min window will return Excetpion
Pause 901 seconds, then send the requests in the next 15-min window

Create App, get customer API keys, generate access token

Generate Bearer Token

Search

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/tweets/search/:product/:label.json, retrieve Tweets matching the specified query
- :product, 30day or fullarchive
- :label, developer environment name
Operators
- Matching on Tweet Contents
  - AND, "Valdosta State"
  - OR, "(Valdosta OR State)"
  - NOT, "(Valdosta -State)"
  - GROUP, "()"
  - Sample
- Tweet Attributes
- Geospatial operators
  - GeoNames
  - bounding_box:[west_long south_lat east_long north_lat]
  - point_radius:[lon lat radius]
    - radius should be less than 25 miles
  - place:
  - place_country:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/tweets/search/:product/:label/counts.json, retrieve the number of Tweets matching the specified query
curl

curl -X POST "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/tweets/search/30day/SearchThirtyDays.json" -d '{"query":"Valdosta State","maxResults":"100","fromDate":"201910200000","toDate":"201910310000"}' -H "Authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIRWAwEAAAAALRrtvjL3wDGnv%2FuA0EO463TjzLc%3DzuLJ3ypKMwrp59WQ4fY6TuAKXN1jqq4VEj4TDx9AFAzWj9qeg4" > junk

TwitterAPI
Sample Code with Python request

Create App, get customer API keys, generate access token

Generate Bearer Token

Search

https://gnip-api.twitter.com/search/:product/accounts/:account/:label.json, retrieve Tweets matching the specified query
- :product, 30day or fullarchive
- :account, account (case sensitive)
- :label, developer environment name
https://gnip-api.twitter.com/search/:product/accounts/:account/:label/counts.json, retrieve the number of Tweets matching the specified query
curl

curl -X POST -u "https://gnip-api.twitter.com/search/:product/accounts/:account_name/:label.json" -d '{"query":"TwitterDev "search api"","maxResults":"500","fromDate":"","toDate":""}'