Give me my tweets from July 6, 2007
March 28, 2009 6:40 PM Subscribe
Extracting twitter updates for a particular date through the API... how?!
I've scoured the API documentation, and I can't seem to figure this out (my hope is that I'm overlooking some simple, elegant solution). Is there a way, preferably using the REST API with PHP, to grab tweets based on a given date? I've read this question, I know about TweetDumpr, and using "since" doesn't achieve what I want since it pulls in all the unneeded tweets AFTER the specified date as well.
This isn't just a personal project; if I can get this to work, it would be on a multi-user scale, where each user supplies his or her twitter credentials and can then see their tweets when they click on a specific day. Manually downloading a CSV file and parsing it each and every time would be a waste of server resources. It seems like the API would be robust enough to handle a "SELECT ALL TWEETS FROM $date". Am I living in some simplistic tweet fantasy world or what?!
Please hope me!
I've scoured the API documentation, and I can't seem to figure this out (my hope is that I'm overlooking some simple, elegant solution). Is there a way, preferably using the REST API with PHP, to grab tweets based on a given date? I've read this question, I know about TweetDumpr, and using "since" doesn't achieve what I want since it pulls in all the unneeded tweets AFTER the specified date as well.
This isn't just a personal project; if I can get this to work, it would be on a multi-user scale, where each user supplies his or her twitter credentials and can then see their tweets when they click on a specific day. Manually downloading a CSV file and parsing it each and every time would be a waste of server resources. It seems like the API would be robust enough to handle a "SELECT ALL TWEETS FROM $date". Am I living in some simplistic tweet fantasy world or what?!
Please hope me!
That won't get me the updates for a specific person, however. The way I'm using it, the user will already be authenticated via OAuth, so whether they're updates are public or private shouldn't matter. I'm just trying to get the updates for one person on one particular date.
posted by bjork24 at 7:39 PM on March 28, 2009
posted by bjork24 at 7:39 PM on March 28, 2009
No, it will get you updates for a specific person. Note the "from:trs" (that's me) in the query.
posted by thebabelfish at 7:41 PM on March 28, 2009
posted by thebabelfish at 7:41 PM on March 28, 2009
Nice double accounts, by the way. ; )
posted by thebabelfish at 7:43 PM on March 28, 2009
posted by thebabelfish at 7:43 PM on March 28, 2009
Hmm. I tried your method (using my own username) and it pulled up random tweets, but not my own.
posted by bjork24 at 7:47 PM on March 28, 2009
posted by bjork24 at 7:47 PM on March 28, 2009
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http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:trs+since:2009-03-02+until:2009-03-02
posted by thebabelfish at 7:18 PM on March 28, 2009