Twitter API - Display all tweets with a certain hashtag?

Question

How would I go about displaying tweets that contain a certain hashtag using the Twitter API? Thanks

I'd also like to know if there is a way to get all tweets from a certain hashtag in a separate file, also the ones that don't show up in your feed anymore. I suppose that's what the earlier question was about, too.

Answer 1

This answer was written in 2010. The API it uses has since been retired. It is kept for historical interest only.

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Search for it.

Make sure include_entities is set to true to get hashtag results. See Tweet Entities

Returns 5 mixed results with Twitter.com user IDs plus entities for the term "blue angels":

GET http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=blue%20angels&rpp=5&include_entities=true&with_twitter_user_id=true&result_type=mixed

Answer 2

UPDATE for v1.1:

Rather than giving q="search_string" give it q="hashtag" in URL encoded form to return results with HASHTAG ONLY. So your query would become:

    GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23freebandnames 

%23 is URL encoded form of #. Try the link out in your browser and it should work.

You can optimize the query by adding since_id and max_id parameters detailed here. Hope this helps !

Note: Search API is now a OAUTH authenticated call, so please include your access_tokens to the above call

Updated

Twitter Search doc link: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html