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Get number of video views from a video tweet

I'm looking for a way to get the number of video views from a video tweet.

With the search/tweets I can get the number of favorites and retweets but not the views. Is it possible?

Solution

  • In the twitter ads api there is a video metric where is possible to get the number of views. The problem is that it requires to be approved through the twitter review process and this api looks more like a way to fully manage the ads of the user.

    But I finally found an undocumented api where I can get this information using the same access token used for everything else:

    https://api.twitter.com/1.1/videos/tweet/config/{{id-tweet}}.json

    Among other things, it returns a track.viewCount field.