twitter api 1.1 url count alternative

Question

I've been using the old url api(v1) to get the count of a given url, lately I needed to get also the re-tweets and started searching about that.

this is the exact url I'm using right now: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://google.com

As I viewed with some reading the v1 api is deprecated but at least it's still working.

I found some questions on the dev page of twitter:

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/12643

those are a little old questions and have no specific solving to the problem. I mean, the most near solution was using the search api(search/tweets) which could be good but not a exactly replacement for the urls/count method.

Please note that Twitter's search service and, by extension, the Search API is not meant to be an exhaustive source of Tweets. Not all Tweets will be indexed or made available via the search interface.

also it has a limit for 100 results at maximum per 'page', even it throws the link to get the next set of objects, thats good but when the search reaches 1 million of results I'll need to get page over page to now how much tweets I got and having to do to much request to the api...

I sought some question over the dev page on twitter suggested using the stream api, I've tried using (statuses/filter) but that don't work very well given a URL as track param(which they said that is the keyword to track).

So, anyone who's been using the old urls/count has found a reliable alternative with the new apiv1.1, especiffically to get the tweets and re-tweets for a given url ?

Answer 1

The official suggestion by Twitter staff is that either the search/tweets endpoint (having just the last 7 days data) or the Streaming API be used (handling yourself the counters, making everything just too complicated for a d*mn counter).

As an extra warning, the old endpoint (http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=YOUR_URL) will stop working on November 20th, and according to this blog post from Twitter there are no plans to replace it with anything in the short term and they are even removing the count from their own buttons.