# Count mentions of specific months with twitter node

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131>\
**Category:** KNIME Analytics Platform\
**Created:** [February 20, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131 "2016-02-20T18:50:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Julia\_Riegger](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Julia\_Riegger](https://forum.knime.com/u/Julia_Riegger)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131/1 "2016-02-20T18:50:10Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ferry.abt](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ferry.abt](https://forum.knime.com/u/ferry.abt)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131/2 "2016-02-29T11:07:06Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Julia\_Riegger](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Julia\_Riegger](https://forum.knime.com/u/Julia_Riegger)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131/3 "2016-03-01T15:52:26Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ferry.abt](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ferry.abt](https://forum.knime.com/u/ferry.abt)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131/4 "2016-03-01T16:34:38Z")

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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&nbsp;it would be awesome if you could publish it in the forum or send it to me!

Best,  
Ferry

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/count-mentions-of-specific-months-with-twitter-node/4131/5 "2023-06-23T20:20:08Z")

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