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Using the twitter gem to retrieve all tweets containing a certain term, in a certain time window

I've been having a tough time finding info on this since the tweet count was restricted. I've started with this to get tweets in the last two week window: 

    client.search(
        "to:justinbieber marry me",
        result_type: "recent",
        since: (Time.now-(2*7*24*60*60)).to_s
    ).each do |tweet|
        puts tweet.text
    end

This doesn't work. And if it did would only return a certain number of tweets because of the limit. I want all the tweets meeting my query in the time window. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Solution

  • It's your since parameters that is incorrect. You are passing a Time and twitter expects a date only. It works fine if you do something like:

    client.search(
  "to:justinbieber marry me",
  result_type: "recent",
  since: (Time.now-2.weeks).to_date
).each do |tweet|
  puts tweet.text
end