Downloading all the tweets from an user

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Hi there everyone! I am using the Twitter API of Mathematica and I have a problem that I can not solve. I want to download ALL the tweets posted by a user, but, for some reason, my limit download is 5000 tweets. The code that I am using is the following one:

twitter=ServiceConnect["Twitter",SaveConnection->True]

tweets=twitter["TweeList", "Username"->XXYY,"MaxItems"->5000,"Elements"->"FullData"]

If instead of 5000 I write 10000 for example, the following error occur:

ServiceExecute::nval: Invalid value for parameter MaxItems in service Twitter.

Any idea to solve this?

Thank you for your time :slight_smile:

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I think you hit the limit set by twitter API policy.

3

Is there any way to bypass this restriction?. For instance, If a can download a specific range of tweets, for example from May to March I can avoid this limitation.

4

I’ve used the date range technique over multiple days before and it worked. Though it has been a while since I’ve needed to do that.

5

You can use SessionSubmit and ScheduledTask to automate the process of downloading the data in smaller batches with a delay between each batch.

6

Can you explain to me how to use it or how it works step by step?