Twitter Stream Filter By Location

Question

Is it possible for Twitter Stream API to filter tweets by the location field? As you can see in the sample JSON entry below that there is "location":"philippines" field - value. Now, what I wanted is to just filter tweets coming from that location through the location field. But don't get me wrong. I am not talking about GEO-tag filter.

Is this possible?

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Solution 1

well..you can't do it with the twitter api..twitter don't filter the location field only geotag..if you want filter location you must write a filter for filtering the location in the json respnse..it's really inefficient, you will lose a lot twitts because you only receive less 10% public status:

statuses/sample

Returns a random sample of all public statuses. The default access level, ‘Spritzer’ provides a small proportion of the Firehose, very roughly, 1% of all public statuses. The “Gardenhose” access level provides a proportion more suitable for data mining and research applications that desire a larger proportion to be statistically significant sample. Currently Gardenhose returns, very roughly, 10% of all public statuses. Note that these proportions are subject to unannounced adjustment as traffic volume varies.

and you can read too:

statuses/firehose

Returns all public statuses. The Firehose is not a generally available resource. Few applications require this level of access. Creative use of a combination of other resources and various access levels can satisfy nearly every application use case.

so..you only has 2 options..1) filter your entire country using the locations filter or 2) receive only 1% entire public statuses and filter it, maybe read it can help you:

bye and happy coding

Solution 2

Check the twitter streaming api at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods#locations

locations

Specifies a set of bounding boxes to track. Only tweets that are both created using the Geotagging API and are placed from within a tracked bounding box will be included in the stream – the user’s location field is not used to filter tweets (e.g. if a user has their location set to “San Francisco”, but the tweet was not created using the Geotagging API and has no geo element, it will not be included in the stream). Bounding boxes are specified as a comma separate list of longitude/latitude pairs, with the first pair denoting the southwest corner of the box. For example locations=-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8 would track tweets from the San Francisco area. Multiple bounding boxes may be specified by concatenating latitude/longitude pairs, for example: locations=-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8,-74,40,-73,41 would track tweets from San Francisco and New York City.

Just as with the track parameter, queries are subject to Track Limitations, described in Track Limiting and subject to access roles, described in the statuses/filter method. Both the number and size of bounding boxes is limited. Bounding boxes can be up to 360 degrees longitude by 180 degrees latitude, and you may specify up to 25 bounding boxes. A box of 360-degrees by 180-degrees will cover the whole earth. Higher access levels provide additional bounding boxes.

Bounding boxes are logical ORs. A locations parameter may be combined with track parameters, but note that all terms are logically ORd, so the query string track=twitter&locations=-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8 would match any tweets containing the term Twitter (even non-geo tweets) OR coming from the San Francisco area.

Values: longitude/latitude pairs, separated by commas. The first pair specifies the southwest corner of the box. Methods: statuses/filter

Example: Create a file called ‘locations’ that contains, excluding the quotation marks, the phrase: “locations=-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8,-74,40,-73,41” then execute:

curl -d @locations https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json
-uAnyTwitterUser:Password. 

You will receive all geo tagged tweets from the San Francisco and New York City area.