Constraining Twitter data stream
Orbifold
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How can one filter out tweets satisfying a criterium? Say, only tweets with a location or a user with more than x followers?
I suppose one can listen to everything and filter things out thereafter but it's a waste of storage.
Thank you.
I suppose one can listen to everything and filter things out thereafter but it's a waste of storage.
Thank you.
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Hi,
1) If you use the Twitter REST API:
You can try to use some "query operators", as defined in the Twitter REST API documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search Some are not listed but you can find them running an advanced search on the website: https://twitter.com/search-advanced
For example:
- from:atwitteraccountname
- near:"Paris, France" within:15mi
Selecting users with more than x followers is not an available option.
2) If you use the Twitter Streaming API (used by the DSS built-in connector):
https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters
Options look more limited.
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Precisely, if one uses the full Twitter API there is no issue. I mean, one can use Python or R to fill a dataset. My question was related to the DSS built-in dataset definition where one (as far as I can tell) only configure a filter on the content of the "text" field. This is a bit too simple and at the same time too much AFAIC. Too simple as a filter and too much data being streamed in as a result.
