Count mentions of specific months with twitter node

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Hello,

I need to count the mentions of three different Twitteraccounts at July, August and September from last year. Can I manage this with the Twitter node or can this node only report my own Twitteraccount?

Has anyone experience with this?

Thank you for your reply. Julia

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Hello Julia,

I did a little research and here is what I found:

To get all the mentions in an aribitrary timeframe you need the "GET statuses/mentions_timeline". But this needs user authentication.
If you don't have the user authentication you can still crawl mentions via the "GET search/tweets". But his is limited to the last 7 days.

So I don't think this is possible via the Twitter-API.

I'm no Twitter-expert but you could try to do a workaround via a web-crawler? If there is a website where you can see them you can probably use a crawler to get those tweets as HTML and then parse them. Not neat, but might do the job.

Best,
Ferry

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Hello Ferry,

I think you are right that this isn't possible with the twitter-API. On my research someone mentioned that it only can reach the last two or three months....

But the web-crawler is a good idea, I think I will search in this direction, as it sounds possible to find something with the function I'm searching for.

So thank you for this idea.

Best, Julia

 

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Hi Julia,

The community nodes, i.e. the Palladian nodes, are a good starting point. There is for example an HTML-Parser.
If you create a workflow to circumvent the limitations of the twitter API it would be awesome if you could publish it in the forum or send it to me!

Best,
Ferry