Twitter API - get tweets with specific id

Question

I have a list of tweet ids for which I would like to download their text content. Is there any easy solution to do this, preferably through a Python script? I had a look at other libraries like Tweepy and things don't appear to work so simple, and downloading them manually is out of the question since my list is very long.

Answer 1

You can access specific tweets by their id with the statuses/show/:id API route. Most Python Twitter libraries follow the exact same patterns, or offer 'friendly' names for the methods.

For example, Twython offers several show_* methods, including Twython.show_status() that lets you load specific tweets:

CONSUMER_KEY = "<consumer key>" CONSUMER_SECRET = "<consumer secret>" OAUTH_TOKEN = "<application key>" OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "<application secret" twitter = Twython(     CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET,     OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)  tweet = twitter.show_status(id=id_of_tweet) print(tweet['text']) 

and the returned dictionary follows the Tweet object definition given by the API.

The tweepy library uses tweepy.get_status():

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET) api = tweepy.API(auth)  tweet = api.get_status(id_of_tweet) print(tweet.text) 

where it returns a slightly richer object, but the attributes on it again reflect the published API.