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Get tweets of a public twitter profile

I have a list of usernames on Twitter whose profiles are public. I wish to get "all the tweets" they have posted from the day they formed their profile. I checked Twitter4J examples on GitHub.
According to the Twitter API documentation, only the 20 most recent tweets are returned. Is there anyway I could perform my task?

Solution

  • To use Twitter4J to get all posts from a user you'll have to make your request over multiple pages..

    Below code based of an example on GitHub

    Twitter unauthenticatedTwitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
//First param of Paging() is the page number, second is the number per page (this is capped around 200 I think.
Paging paging = new Paging(1, 100);
List<Status> statuses = unauthenticatedTwitter.getUserTimeline("google",paging);

    Just loop and keep grabbing new pages until there are no new posts should work.