Getting tweet replies to a particular tweet from a particular user
Solution 1
There is a workaround using the REST API.
You will need the id_str and @username of the author of the original tweet you want to find replies to.
You should use the Search API for the "@username" of the author. Go through the results looking for the 'in_reply_to_status_id' field to compare to the id_str of the specific tweet you want replies for.
Solution 2
Here's a work around to fetch replies of a tweet made by "username" using the rest API using tweepy
1) Find the tweet_id of the tweet for which the replies are required to be fetched
2) Using the api's search method query the following (q="@username", since_id=tweet_id) and retrieve all tweets since tweet_id
3) the results matching the in_reply_to_status_id to tweet_id is the replies for the post.
Solution 3
replies=[]
non_bmp_map = dict.fromkeys(range(0x10000, sys.maxunicode + 1), 0xfffd)
for full_tweets in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline,screen_name=name,timeout=999999).items(10):
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='to:'+name,result_type='recent',timeout=999999).items(1000):
if hasattr(tweet, 'in_reply_to_status_id_str'):
if (tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str==full_tweets.id_str):
replies.append(tweet.text)
print("Tweet :",full_tweets.text.translate(non_bmp_map))
for elements in replies:
print("Replies :",elements)
replies.clear()
The above code will fetch 10 recent tweets of an user(name) along with the replies to that particular tweet.The replies will be saved on to a list named replies. You can retrieve more tweets by increasing the items count (eg:items(100)).
Solution 4
Even after so many approaches and help, I spent around an hour figuring out the exact code to fetch replies to a tweet made by the original author. In addition to fetching the reply, twitter users' mostly reply to the reply to make a thread (which makes it different to fetch the entire thread made by the original author)
I've recently been working on a simple project which uploads the screenshot of every tweet in a thread of original author to your Google Photos. The most important part of being able to fetch reply
to the tweets and reply to the replies
Here's a simple recursion that I wrote which solves my problem. This function update the urls
list with the URLs of all the replies and replies to the replies of the author.
def update_urls(tweet, api, urls):
tweet_id = tweet.id
user_name = tweet.user.screen_name
max_id = None
replies = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='to:{}'.format(user_name),
since_id=tweet_id, max_id=max_id, tweet_mode='extended').items()
for reply in replies:
if(reply.in_reply_to_status_id == tweet_id):
urls.append(get_twitter_url(user_name, reply.id))
try:
for reply_to_reply in update_urls(reply, api, urls):
pass
except Exception:
pass
max_id = reply.id
return urls
Here are some additional function that you might need if you plan to use the update_urls
function.
def get_api():
auth=tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
return api
def get_tweet(url):
tweet_id = url.split('/')[-1]
api = get_api()
tweet = api.get_status(tweet_id)
return tweet
def get_twitter_url(user_name, status_id):
return "https://twitter.com/" + str(user_name) + "/status/" + str(status_id)
running the exact code:
api = get_api()
tweet = get_tweet(url)
urls = [url]
urls = update_urls(tweet, api, urls)
In case you want to fetch the content for a particular URL, just call get_tweet(url)
and use the tweet object to get tweet.text
, tweet.user
, etc information. Let me know if it worked or didn't for you :)
Solution 5
Following function uses username and tweet_id to return list of all the text of the replies to that particular tweet_id: (I assume that api has already been declared in the program.)
def get_tweet_thread(username,tweet_id):
replies = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q='to:{}'.format(username),since_id=tweet_id, tweet_mode='extended').items()
replied_thread = list()
for reply in replies:
if(reply._json['in_reply_to_status_id'] == tweet_id):
replied_thread.append(reply._json['full_text'])
return(replied_thread)
Huga
Updated on June 26, 2022Comments
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Huga almost 2 years
I am trying to go through tweets of a particular user and get all replies on that tweet. I found that the APIv1.1 of twitter does not directly support it.
Is there a hack or a workaround on getting the replies for a particular tweet. I am using python Streaming API.