TwitterSearch¶
TwitterSearch was (and still is) developed as part of a project about social media at the Carl von Linde-Akademie which is part of the Technische Universität München. Thus it is a data collecting toolkit and not implementing the whole Twitter API but the Search API.
It’s using the REST API in version 1.1 only. In it’s recent version it directly uses IDs of tweets to navigate throughout the available tweets instead of pages, which is way more comfortable to use and more convenient for really getting all possible tweets.
Also TwitterSearch is build to be highly flexible in its usage making it usable even within exotic use-cases. Details about non-default use-cases can be found in the Advanced usage sections within the class articles.
Architecture¶
TwitterSearch consists of three classes: TwitterSearch, TwitterSearchOrder and TwitterSearchException.
Table of contents¶
Basic usage¶
In most cases you probably just like to iterate through all available tweets as easy as possible. And there it is, a very minimal example to do exactly this:
from TwitterSearch import *
try:
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso.setKeywords(['#Hashtag1', '#Hashtag2'])
ts = TwitterSearch(
consumer_key = 'aaabbb',
consumer_secret = 'cccddd',
access_token = '111222',
access_token_secret = '333444'
)
for tweet in ts.searchTweetsIterable(tso):
print('@%s tweeted: %s' % (tweet['user']['screen_name'], tweet['text']))
except TwitterSearchException as e: # take care of all those ugly errors if there are some
print(e)
Please note that is a working example for both, Python2 and Python3.
Accessible information¶
The creator of this library doesn’t like to hide any informations from you. Therefore the data you’ll receive is quite a lot. A typical tweet, as mentioned in the section above, consists of a huge dict.
You may ask the question “But what does this field exactly mean?”. Well, that’s where the job of TwitterSearch ends and the Twitter documentation joins the fun.
An example of how such a tweet looks like is the following dict:
{'contributors': None,
'coordinates': None,
'created_at': 'Tue Jul 02 11:43:18 +0000 2013',
'entities': {'hashtags': [],
'media': [{'display_url': 'pic.twitter.com/dJLxVZaSW9',
'expanded_url': 'http://twitter.com/EarthBeauties/status/351897277473882113/photo/1',
'id': 351897277478076417,
'id_str': '351897277478076417',
'indices': [78, 100],
'media_url': 'http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOIwtZ2CAAEFRXU.jpg',
'media_url_https': 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOIwtZ2CAAEFRXU.jpg',
'sizes': {'large': {'h': 375,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 600},
'medium': {'h': 375,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 600},
'small': {'h': 213,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 340},
'thumb': {'h': 150,
'resize': 'crop',
'w': 150}},
'source_status_id': 351897277473882113,
'source_status_id_str': '351897277473882113',
'type': 'photo',
'url': 'http://t.co/dJLxVZaSW9'}],
'symbols': [],
'urls': [],
'user_mentions': [{'id': 786796010,
'id_str': '786796010',
'indices': [33, 47],
'name': u'Earth Pictures\u2122',
'screen_name': 'EarthBeauties'}]},
'favorite_count': 0,
'favorited': False,
'geo': None,
'id': 352029711347617792,
'id_str': '352029711347617792',
'in_reply_to_screen_name': 'EarthBeauties',
'in_reply_to_status_id': 351897277473882113,
'in_reply_to_status_id_str': '351897277473882113',
'in_reply_to_user_id': 786796010,
'in_reply_to_user_id_str': '786796010',
'lang': 'in',
'metadata': {'iso_language_code': 'in', 'result_type': 'recent'},
'place': None,
'possibly_sensitive': False,
'retweet_count': 0,
'retweeted': False,
'source': 'web',
'text': 'mau dong dibangunin rmh kekgini "@EarthBeauties: Hohenzollern Castle, Germany http://t.co/dJLxVZaSW9',
'truncated': False,
'user': {'contributors_enabled': False,
'created_at': 'Sun Mar 18 04:22:51 +0000 2012',
'default_profile': False,
'default_profile_image': False,
'description': u"girl non-smoking alcohol-free \u2022 @PLAYMAKERKIDSHC \u2022 DSFF \u2022 15\u221e \u2022 NotWild''",
'entities': {'description': {'urls': []},
'url': {'urls': [{'display_url': 'instagram.com/giwaang',
'expanded_url': 'http://instagram.com/giwaang',
'indices': [0, 22],
'url': 'http://t.co/vCyfkrdTwa'}]}},
'favourites_count': 1,
'follow_request_sent': False,
'followers_count': 661,
'following': False,
'friends_count': 176,
'geo_enabled': False,
'id': 528140042,
'id_str': '528140042',
'is_translator': False,
'lang': 'id',
'listed_count': 1,
'location': u"SwiekeCity\u2022PinkBabyRoom's",
'name': 'EarStud',
'notifications': False,
'profile_background_color': 'BADFCD',
'profile_background_image_url': 'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/872889954/b7439a65d39bdff360c934bd6f33c3b7.jpeg',
'profile_background_image_url_https': 'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/872889954/b7439a65d39bdff360c934bd6f33c3b7.jpeg',
'profile_background_tile': True,
'profile_banner_url': 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/528140042/1369624796',
'profile_image_url': 'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000047155611/7581e79882f1c9f1bbe4b706a023e2c9_normal.jpeg',
'profile_image_url_https': 'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000047155611/7581e79882f1c9f1bbe4b706a023e2c9_normal.jpeg',
'profile_link_color': 'FF0000',
'profile_sidebar_border_color': '000000',
'profile_sidebar_fill_color': '252429',
'profile_text_color': '666666',
'profile_use_background_image': True,
'protected': False,
'screen_name': 'giwaang',
'statuses_count': 10199,
'time_zone': None,
'url': 'http://t.co/vCyfkrdTwa',
'utc_offset': None,
'verified': False}}
The TwitterSearch class¶
This class contains the actual functionality of this library. It is responsible for correctly transmitting your data to the Twitter API and returning the results to your program afterwards.
If you’re looking for the exceptions thrown by this class based on the HTTP status, please read the article about TwitterSearchException.
Available methods¶
| Method | Description | Example |
setProxy(<dict>) |
Sets a proxy. Because only HTTPS requests are done, it’s sufficient to only input a dict containing a https entry |
setProxy({'https':'10.0.0.1:123'}) |
authenticate(verify=<boolean>) |
Creates an authenticated oauth2 client and if verify is true, it also checkes if the user credentials are valid. The default value is True |
authenticate(), authenticate(True) |
searchTweetsIterable(<TwitterSearchOrder>) |
Queries the Twitter API, iterates through tweets and reloads available older tweets automatically | see Basic usage |
searchTweets(<TwitterSearchOrder>) |
Queries the Twitter API without iterating or reloading of further results and returns response | see Advanced usage |
sentSearch(<string>) |
Queries the Twitter Search API with a given query string, determines if there are more results available in API and returns response. | sentSearch('?q=One+Two&count=100') |
searchNextResults() |
Queries the API for more tweets and returns response | see Advanced usage |
getMetadata() |
Returns a dict of meta information about the last query | see Advanced usage |
getTweets() |
Returns a dict of all tweets returned by last query | see Advanced usage |
getStatistics() |
Returns a dict of the type { 'queries' : <int>, 'tweets' : <int> } with statistical values about the number of queries and the sum of all tweets recieved by this very instance of TwitterSearch |
print "Queries done %i / Tweets received %i" % (ts.getStatistics()['queries'], ts.getStatistics()['tweets']) |
checkHTTPStatus(<int>) |
Checks if given HTTP status code is in TwitterSearch.exceptions and raises TwitterSearchException if this is the case |
checkHTTPStatus(200), checkHTTPStatus(401) |
setSupportedLanguages(<TwitterSearchOrder>) |
Loads currently supported languages from Twitter and stores them in a TwitterSearchOrder instance |
see Advanced usage |
The methods next(), __next__() and __iter__() are used during the iteration process. For more information about those methods please consult the official Python documentation.
Constructor¶
The constructor needed to set your credentials for the Twitter API. The parameters are __init__( consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret, verify=True).
If you’re new to Python take a look at the following example:
ts1 = TwitterSearch(
consumer_key = 'aaabbb',
consumer_secret = 'cccddd',
access_token = '111222',
access_token_secret = '333444'
)
# equals
ts2 = TwitterSearch('aaabbb', 'cccddd', '111222', '333444', verify=True)
Authentication and verification¶
Please be aware that there is no further check whether or not your credentials are valid if you set verify=False in the constructor. If you’re skipping the verification process of TwitterSearch you can avoid some traffic and one query (which is also rate-limited by Twitter).
But be aware that you’re only saving one request at all by avoiding the automatic verification process. Due to the fact that json doesn’t consume much traffic at all, this may only be a way for very conservative developers or some exotic scenarios.
Returned tweets¶
TwitterSearch is trying to not hide anything from your eyes except the complexity of it’s functions. Due to this you’re able to get all the information available (which can be quite a lot).
Example output with only one tweet included:
{'search_metadata': {'completed_in': 0.08,
'count': 1,
'max_id': 352072665667878913,
'max_id_str': '352072665667878913',
'next_results': '?max_id=352072665667878912&q=Germany%20castle&count=1&include_entities=1',
'query': 'Germany+castle',
'refresh_url': '?since_id=352072665667878913&q=Germany%20castle&include_entities=1',
'since_id': 0,
'since_id_str': '0'},
'statuses': [
{'contributors': None,
'coordinates': None,
'created_at': 'Tue Jul 02 14:33:59 +0000 2013',
'entities': {'hashtags': [],
'media': [{'display_url': 'pic.twitter.com/Oz77FLEong',
'expanded_url': 'http://twitter.com/ThatsEarth/status/351839174887870464/photo/1',
'id': 351839174896259072,
'id_str': '351839174896259072',
'indices': [117, 139],
'media_url': 'http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOH73Y3CEAAldKU.jpg',
'media_url_https': 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOH73Y3CEAAldKU.jpg',
'sizes': {'large': {'h': 639,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 960},
'medium': {'h': 399,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 600},
'small': {'h': 226,
'resize': 'fit',
'w': 340},
'thumb': {'h': 150,
'resize': 'crop',
'w': 150}},
'source_status_id': 351839174887870464,
'source_status_id_str': '351839174887870464',
'type': 'photo',
'url': 'http://t.co/Oz77FLEong'}],
'symbols': [],
'urls': [],
'user_mentions': [{'id': 118504288,
'id_str': '118504288',
'indices': [0, 11],
'name': 'Josh Dallas',
'screen_name': 'joshdallas'},
{'id': 298250825,
'id_str': '298250825',
'indices': [12, 25],
'name': 'Ginnifer Goodwin',
'screen_name': 'ginnygoodwin'},
{'id': 1201661238,
'id_str': '1201661238',
'indices': [49, 60],
'name': 'Earth Pics',
'screen_name': 'ThatsEarth'}]},
'favorite_count': 0,
'favorited': False,
'geo': None,
'id': 352072665667878913,
'id_str': '352072665667878913',
'in_reply_to_screen_name': 'joshdallas',
'in_reply_to_status_id': None,
'in_reply_to_status_id_str': None,
'in_reply_to_user_id': 118504288,
'in_reply_to_user_id_str': '118504288',
'lang': 'en',
'metadata': {'iso_language_code': 'en',
'result_type': 'recent'},
'place': None,
'possibly_sensitive': False,
'retweet_count': 0,
'retweeted': False,
'source': '<a href="http://twitter.com/download/android" rel="nofollow">Twitter for Android</a>',
'text': '@joshdallas @ginnygoodwin home during wintertime"@ThatsEarth: Hohenzollern Castle floating above the Clouds,Germany. http://t.co/Oz77FLEong"',
'truncated': False,
'user': {'contributors_enabled': False,
'created_at': 'Fri Aug 14 09:15:27 +0000 2009',
'default_profile': False,
'default_profile_image': False,
'description': 'Scorpio. 23. MBA Graduate.',
'entities': {'description': {'urls': []},
'url': {'urls': [{'display_url': 'fanfiction.net/u/4764512/',
'expanded_url': 'http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4764512/',
'indices': [0,
22],
'url': 'http://t.co/sEKQ1M85H2'}]}},
'favourites_count': 114,
'follow_request_sent': False,
'followers_count': 300,
'following': False,
'friends_count': 229,
'geo_enabled': False,
'id': 65599486,
'id_str': '65599486',
'is_translator': False,
'lang': 'en',
'listed_count': 0,
'location': 'Kuwait',
'name': 'Amal Behbehani',
'notifications': False,
'profile_background_color': 'DBE9ED',
'profile_background_image_url': 'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/317569734/tumblr_lqc4ttwuJm1qclkveo1_500.jpg',
'profile_background_image_url_https': 'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/317569734/tumblr_lqc4ttwuJm1qclkveo1_500.jpg',
'profile_background_tile': True,
'profile_banner_url': 'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/65599486/1372576102',
'profile_image_url': 'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/3763288269/57c274f19592f6d190957d8eb86c64f1_normal.png',
'profile_image_url_https': 'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3763288269/57c274f19592f6d190957d8eb86c64f1_normal.png',
'profile_link_color': 'CC3366',
'profile_sidebar_border_color': 'DBE9ED',
'profile_sidebar_fill_color': 'E6F6F9',
'profile_text_color': '333333',
'profile_use_background_image': True,
'protected': False,
'screen_name': 'TigeyGirl',
'statuses_count': 18891,
'time_zone': 'Santiago',
'url': 'http://t.co/sEKQ1M85H2',
'utc_offset': -14400,
'verified': False}}]}
Have a look at the entities documented by Twitter to figure out what a specific key-value tuple does exactly mean.
Advanced usage¶
Sometime the default use-case is not sufficient and you may like to use TwitterSearch in unusual scenarios.
Access meta data¶
An output of the available meta data from the query to the Twitter API is stored in a dict. You can access it by calling getMetadata() which will return all meta information about the last query.
Example:
{
'content-length': '467129',
'x-rate-limit-reset': '1372773784',
'x-rate-limit-remaining': '170',
'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block',
'cache-control': 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0',
'status': '200',
'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
'set-cookie': 'lang=de, guest_id=v1%!xxx; Domain=.twitter.com; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01-Jul-2013 14:02:32 UTC',
'expires': 'Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT',
'x-access-level': 'read',
'last-modified': 'Tue, 01 Jul 2013 14:02:32 GMT',
'-content-encoding': 'gzip',
'pragma': 'no-cache',
'date': 'Tue, 01 Jul 2013 14:02:32 GMT',
'x-rate-limit-limit': '180',
'content-location': u'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?count=100&oauth_body_hash=xxx&oauth_nonce=xxx&oauth_timestamp=xxx&oauth_consumer_key=xxx&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&q=Germany+castle&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=xxx&oauth_signature=xxx',
'x-transaction': 'xxx',
'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=631138519',
'server': 'tfe',
'x-frame-options': 'SAMEORIGIN',
'content-type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8'
}
Be careful about those data as it contains sensible data as you can see in getMetadata()['content-location']. Do NOT save or output those information to insecure environments!
TwitterSearch without iteration¶
It is also perfectly possible to use TwitterSearch without the iteration and to query the Twitter API all by yourself. For example you may like to implement the suggest max_id procedure of Twitter to access the API directly and don’t trust the library to do this automatically on it’s own.
A possible solution could look like this:
from TwitterSearch import *
try:
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso.setKeywords(['Germany', 'castle'])
ts = TwitterSearch('aaabbb', 'cccddd', '111222', '333444')
# init variables needed in loop
todo = True
next_max_id = 0
# let's start the action
while(todo):
# first query the Twitter API
response = ts.searchTweets(tso)
# print rate limiting status
print "Current rate-limiting status: %i" % ts.getMetadata()['x-rate-limit-reset']
# check if there are statuses returned and whether we still have work to do
todo = not len(response['content']['statuses']) == 0
# check all tweets according to their ID
for tweet in response['content']['statuses']:
tweet_id = tweet['id']
print("Seen tweet with ID %i" % tweet_id)
# current ID is lower than current next_max_id?
if (tweet_id < next_max_id) or (next_max_id == 0):
next_max_id = tweet_id
next_max_id -= 1 # decrement to avoid seeing this tweet again
# set lowest ID as MaxID
tso.setMaxID(next_max_id)
except TwitterSearchException as e:
print(e)
On-the-fly loading of supported languages¶
As you may have figured out some languages are not supported by Twitter and those that are may change over time. This is why Twitter does provide an endpoint to load all currently supported languages. You may query it to gather current information about the languages in Twitter.
from TwitterSearch import *
try:
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
ts = TwitterSearch('aaabbb', 'cccddd', '111222', '333444')
# load currently supported languages by Twitter and store them in a TwitterSearchOrder object
ts.setSupportedLanguages(tso)
# try to set German (see ISO 639-1) as language
ts.setLanguage('de')
print('German seems to be officially supported by Twitter. Yay!')
except TwitterSearchException as e:
# if we get an 1002 code it means that 'de' is not supported (see TwitterSearchException)
if e.code == 1002:
print('Oh no - German is not supported :(')
print(e)
The TwitterSearchOrder class¶
This class mainly acts as a plain container for configuration all parameters currently available by the Twitter Search API.
If you’re looking for the exceptions this class raises, please have a look at the article about TwitterSearchException.
Available methods¶
There are several parameters which can easily be set and modified by methods in TwitterSearchOrder.
The only parameter with a default value is count with 100. This is because it is the maximum of tweets returned by the Twitter API and in most cases you’d like to reduce traffic and the amount of queries, so it makes sense to set the biggest possible value by default.
Be aware that some parameters can be ignored by Twitter. For example currently not every language is detectable by the Search API. TwitterSearch is only responsible for transmitting values according to the Twitter documentation.
| API Parameter | Type | Modifying methods | Example |
| q | *required* | addKeyword(<string>), setKeywords(<list>) |
addKeyword('#Hashtag'), setKeywords(['foo','bar']) |
| geocode | optional | setGeocode(latitude<float>, longitude<float>, radius<int,long>, km=<True,False> |
setGeocode(52.5233,13.4127,10,km=True) |
| lang | optional | setLanguage(<ISO-6391-string>) |
setLanguage('en') |
| locale | optional | setLocale(<ISO-6391-string>) |
setLocale('ja') |
| result_type | optional | setResultType(<mixed,recent,popular>) |
setResultType('recent') |
| count | optional | setCount(<int>[Range: 1-100]) |
setCount(42) |
| until | optional | setUntil(<datetime.date>) |
setUntil(datetime.date(2012, 12, 24)) |
| since_id | optional | setSinceID(<int,long>[Range: >0]) |
setSinceID(250075927172759552) |
| max_id | optional | setMaxID(<int,long>[Range: >0]) |
setMaxID(249292149810667520) |
| include_entities | optional | setIncludeEntities(<bool,int>) |
setIncludeEntities(True), setIncludeEntities(1) |
| callback | optional | setCallback(<string>) |
setCallback('myMethod') |
If you’re not familar with the meaning of the parameters, please have a look at the Twitter Search API documentation. Most parameter are self-descriping anyway.
Advanced usage¶
You may want to use TwitterSearchOrder for just generating a valid Twitter Search API query string containing all your arguments without knowing too much details about the Twitter API? No problem at all as there is the method TwitterSearchOrder.createSearchURL(). It creates and returns an valid Twitter Search API query string. Afterwards the last created string is also available through TwitterSearchOrder.url.
from TwitterSearch import TwitterSearchOrder, TwitterSearchException
try:
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso.setLanguage('nl')
tso.setLocale('ja')
tso.setKeywords(['One','Two'])
tso.addKeyword('myKeyword')
print(tso.createSearchURL())
except TwitterSearchException as e:
print(e)
You’ll receive ?q=One+Two+myKeyword&count=100&lang=nl&locale=ja as result. Now you are free to use this string for manually querying Twitter (or any other API using the same parameter as Twitter does).
Maybe you would like to create another TwitterSearchOrder instance with a slightly other URL.
from TwitterSearch import TwitterSearchOrder, TwitterSearchException
try:
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso.setLanguage('nl')
tso.setLocale('ja')
tso.setKeywords(['One','Two'])
tso.addKeyword('myKeyword')
querystr = tso.createSearchURL()
# create a new TwitterSearchOrder based on the old query string and work with it
tso2 = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso2.setSearchURL(querystr + '&result_type=mixed&include_entities=true')
tso2.setLocale('en')
print(tso2.createSearchURL())
except TwitterSearchException as e:
print(e)
This piece of code will finally result in an output of ?q=One+Two+myKeyword&count=100&lang=nl&locale=en&result_type=mixed&include_entities=true.
Please be aware that the sense of arguments given by setSearchURL() is not checked. Due to this it is perfectly valid to to stuff like setSearchURL('q=Not+my+department&count=1731&locale=Canada&foo=bar'). When manually setting the string, the leading ? sign is optional.
Such stuff doesn’t make much sense when querying Twitter. However, there may be cases when you’re using TwitterSearch is some exotic context where this behavior is needed to avoid the regular checks of the TwitterSearchOrder methods.
Be aware that if you’re using setSearchURL() all previous configured parameters are lost.
The TwitterSearchException class¶
This class is all about exceptions (surprise, surprise!). All exception based directly on TwitterSearch will consist of a code and a message describing the reason of the exception shortly.
You can also print an exception like a string which will result in Error <TwitterSearchException.code>: <TwitterSearchException.message>. For those new to Python, this can be easily done like this:
except TwitterSearchException as e:
print(e)
List of exceptions¶
There are two kinds of exceptions. Those based on the HTTP status of the query to the Twitter API and those based on misconfiguration of TwitterSearch for example by setting odd parameters or trying to access tweets without querying the API before.
Library based exceptions¶
All exceptions based on issues within TwitterSearch do have TwitterSearchException.code >= 1000
| Code | Message | Raised by class |
| 1000 | Neither a list nor a string | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1001 | Not a list object | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1002 | No ISO 6391-1 language code | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1003 | No valid result type | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1004 | Invalid number | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1005 | Invalid unit | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1006 | Invalid callback string | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1007 | Not a date object | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1008 | Invalid boolean | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1009 | Invalid string | TwitterSearch |
| 1010 | Not a valid TwitterSearchOrder object | TwitterSearch |
| 1011 | No more results available | TwitterSearch |
| 1012 | No meta data available | TwitterSearch |
| 1013 | No tweets available | TwitterSearch |
| 1014 | No results available | TwitterSearch |
| 1015 | No keywords given | TwitterSearchOrder |
| 1016 | Invalid dict | TwitterSearch |
HTTP based exceptions¶
Exceptions based on the HTTP status response of the Twitter API are TwitterSearchException.code < 1000. Note that the code attribute is exactly the HTTP status value returned to TwitterSearch. All those exceptions are raised in TwitterSearch only.
| Code | Message |
| 400 | Bad Request: The request was invalid |
| 401 | Unauthorized: Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect |
| 403 | Forbidden: The request is understood, but it has been refused or access is not allowed |
| 404 | Not Found: The URI requested is invalid or the resource requested does not exists |
| 406 | Not Acceptable: Invalid format is specified in the request |
| 410 | Gone: This resource is gone |
| 420 | Enhance Your Calm: You are being rate limited |
| 422 | Unprocessable Entity: Image unable to be processed |
| 429 | Too Many Requests: Request cannot be served due to the application’s rate limit having been exhausted for the resource |
| 500 | Internal Server Error: Something is broken |
| 502 | Bad Gateway: Twitter is down or being upgraded |
| 503 | Service Unavailable: The Twitter servers are up, but overloaded with requests |
| 504 | Gateway timeout: The request couldn’t be serviced due to some failure within our stack |
Advanced usage¶
Maybe there is an odd reason why you don’t want TwitterSearch to raise an exception when a 404 HTTP status is returned by Twitter. Additional you’d like to raise an exception when a 200 HTTP status is returned. Maybe you would like to test your firewall by doing complex HTTP queries. Okay, don’t ask me about use-cases, let’s just assume there is some strange reason to do so.
Since TwitterSearch is designed to be used in academic and highly individual scenarios it is perfectly possible to do such crazy stuff without much trouble.
from TwitterSearch import *
tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
tso.setKeywords(['strange', 'use-case'])
tso.setIncludeEntities(False)
ts = TwitterSearch(
consumer_key = 'onetwothree',
consumer_secret = 'fourfivesix',
access_token = 'foo',
access_token_secret = 'bar'
)
# add a HTTP status based exception based on status 200
ts.exceptions.update({200 : 'It worked - damn it!' })
# delete exception based on HTTP status 400
del ts.exceptions[400]
try:
ts.authenticate()
for tweet in ts.searchTweetsIterable(tso):
print("Seen tweed with ID %i" % tweet['id'])
except TwitterSearchException as e:
if e.code < 1000:
print("HTTP status based exception: %i - %s" % (e.code, e.message))
else:
print("Regular exception: %i - %s" % (e.code, e.message))
If your credentials are correct you will receive the output HTTP status based exception: 200 - It worked - damn it!
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Contribution¶
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