Number of Favo span.ProfileTweet-action–favorite > span.ProfileTweet-actionCount Number of Retweets span.ProfileTweet-action–retweet > span.ProfileTweet-actionCount Timestamp of the post in ms span._timestamp The user ID of the author div.original-tweet The name of the author div.original-tweet The authors twitter handle div.original-tweet Here comes a list of DOM elements you can use to extract The following json array returns all you need to scrape the contents: Use max_position to request the next tweets

More Tweets are loaded on the page via AJAX: typed)īy default, Twitter returns top 25 results, but if you click on

src (assumed to be the source of the query, i.e.

When performing a basic search request you get: You can access and scrape Twitter via advanced search without being logged in: I hope this helps others save time thinking about how to go about using Twitter's API with the new OAuth requirement. The answer below it by describes how to include queries in your authentication. I didn't want to use a big library so the answer for me was PHP and help from answer here. JavaScript is visible to end users, and thus it's a bad idea to include the necessary keys and secrets in a. You need a server-side language to do this. I decided to go the OAuth route to be able to ensure a relevant payload.

I spent a LONG time figuring out how to use the least amount of code to do a simple GET request (like displaying a timeline). On top of that, there are many limitations to the payload, including but not limited to a severely reduced set of key:value pairs in the JSON or XML file you get back. Twitter's Search API is acquired from a third party acquisition - they rarely support it and are seemingly unenthused that it even exists. Previously the Search API was the only Twitter API that didn't require some form of OAuth.

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