Replies to a particular tweet, Twitter API

Twitter Problem Overview

Is there a way in the Twitter API to get the replies to a particular tweet? Thanks

Twitter Solutions

Solution 1 - Twitter

Here is the procedure to get the replies for a tweets

when you fetch the tweet store the tweetId ie., id_str
using twitter search api do the following query [q="to:$tweeterusername", sinceId = $tweetId]
Loop all the results , the results matching the in_reply_to_status_id_str to $tweetid is the replies for the post.

Solution 2 - Twitter

From what I understand, there's not a way to do that directly (at least not now). Seems like something that should be added. They recently added some 'retweet' capabilities, seem logical to add this as well.

Here's one possible way to do this, first sample tweet data (from status/show):

<status>
  <created_at>Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009</created_at>
  <id>1472669360</id>
  <text>At least I can get your humor through tweets. RT @abdur: I don't mean this in a bad way, but genetically speaking your a cul-de-sac.</text>
  <source><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a></source>
  <truncated>false</truncated>
  <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
  <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
  <favorited>false</favorited>
  <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
  <user>
    <id>1401881</id>
     ...

From status/show you can find the user's id. Then statuses/mentions_timeline will return a list of status for a user. Just parse that return looking for a in_reply_to_status_id matching the original tweet's id.

Solution 3 - Twitter

Here is my solution. It utilizes Abraham's Twitter Oauth PHP library: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth</a>

It requires you to know the Twitter user's screen_name attribute as well as the id_str attribute of the tweet in question. This way, you can get an arbitrary conversation feed from any arbitrary user's tweet:

*UPDATE: Refreshed code to reflect object access vs array access:

function get_conversation($id_str, $screen_name, $return_type = 'json', $count = 100, $result_type = 'mixed', $include_entities = true) {

     $params = array(
          'q' => 'to:' . $screen_name, // no need to urlencode this!
          'count' => $count,
          'result_type' => $result_type,
          'include_entities' => $include_entities,
          'since_id' => $id_str
     );

     $feed = $connection->get('search/tweets', $params);

     $comments = array();

     for ($index = 0; $index < count($feed->statuses); $index++) {
          if ($feed->statuses[$index]->in_reply_to_status_id_str == $id_str) {
               array_push($comments, $feed->statuses[$index]);
          }
     }

     switch ($return_type) {
     case 'array':
          return $comments;
          break;
     case 'json':
     default:
          return json_encode($comments);
          break;
     }

}

Solution 4 - Twitter

Twitter has an undocumented api called related_results. It will give you replies for the specified tweet id. Not sure how reliable it is as its experimental, however this is the same api call that is called on twitter web.

Use at your own risk. :)

https://api.twitter.com/1/related_results/show/172019363942117377.json?include_entities=1

For more info, check out this discussion on dev.twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/293

Solution 5 - Twitter

Here I am sharing simple R code to fetch reply of specific tweet

userName = "SrBachchan"

##fetch tweets from @userName timeline
tweets = userTimeline(userName,n = 1)

## converting tweets list to DataFrame  
tweets <- twListToDF(tweets)  

## building queryString to fetch retweets 
queryString = paste0("to:",userName)

## retrieving tweet ID for which reply is to be fetched 
Id = tweets[1,"id"]  

## fetching all the reply to userName
rply = searchTwitter(queryString, sinceID = Id) 
rply = twListToDF(rply)

## eliminate all the reply other then reply to required tweet Id  
rply = rply[!rply$replyToSID > Id,]
rply = rply[!rply$replyToSID < Id,]
rply = rply[complete.cases(rply[,"replyToSID"]),]

## now rply DataFrame contains all the required replies.

Solution 6 - Twitter

The Twitter API v2 supports this now using a conversation_id field. You can read more in the docs.

First, request the conversation_id field of the tweet.

https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets?ids=1225917697675886593&tweet.fields=conversation_id

Second, then search tweets using the conversation_id as the query.

https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/recent?query=conversation_id:1225912275971657728

This is a minimal example, so you should add other fields as you need to the URL.

Solution 7 - Twitter

You can use twarc package in python to collect all the replies to a tweet.

twarc replies 824077910927691778 > replies.jsonl

Also, it is possible to collect all the reply chains (replies to the replies) to a tweet using command below:

twarc replies 824077910927691778 --recursive

Solution 8 - Twitter

Not in an easy pragmatic way. There is an feature request in for it:

http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142

There are a couple of third-party websites that provide APIs but they often miss statuses.

Solution 9 - Twitter

I've implemented this in the following way:

statuses/update returns id of the last status (if include_entities is true)
Then you can request statuses/mentions and filter the result by in_reply_to_status_id. The latter should be equal to the particular id from step 1

Solution 10 - Twitter

I came across the same issue a few months ago at work, as I was previously using their related_tweets endpoint in REST V1.

So I had to create a workaround, which I have documented here:
~~http://adriancrepaz.com/twitter_conversations_api</strike> ^{Mirror - Github fork}~~

This class should do exactly what you want. It scrapes the HTML of the mobile site, and parses a conversation. I've used it for a while and it seems very reliable.

To fetch a conversation...

Request

<?php require_once 'acTwitterConversation.php'; $twitter = new acTwitterConversation; $conversation = $twitter->fetchConversion(324215761998594048); print_r($conversation); ?>

Response

Array ( [error] => false [tweets] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 324214451756728320 [state] => before [username] => facebook [name] => Facebook [content] => Facebook for iOS v6.0 ? Now with chat heads and stickers in private messages, and a more beautiful News Feed on iPad itunes.apple.com/us/app/faceboo? [date] => 16 Apr [images] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3513354941/24aaffa670e634a7da9a087bfa83abe6_normal.png [large] => https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3513354941/24aaffa670e634a7da9a087bfa83abe6.png ) ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 324214861728989184 [state] => before [username] => michaelschultz [name] => Michael Schultz [content] => @facebook good April Fools joke Facebook?.chat hasn?t changed. No new features. [date] => 16 Apr [images] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/414193649073668096/dbIUerA8_normal.jpeg [large] => https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/414193649073668096/dbIUerA8.jpeg ) ) .... ) )

Solution 11 - Twitter

As states satheesh it works great. Here is REST API code what I used

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');

/** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/
$settings = array(
    'oauth_access_token' => "xxxx",
    'oauth_access_token_secret' => "xxxx",
    'consumer_key' => "xxxx",
    'consumer_secret' => "xxxx"
);



// Your specific requirements
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$getfield = '?q=to:screen_name&sinceId=twitter_id';

// Perform the request
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$b =  $twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
             ->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
             ->performRequest();

$arr = json_decode($b,TRUE);

echo "Replies <pre>";
print_r($arr);
die;

Solution 12 - Twitter

since statuses/mentions_timeline will return the 20 most recent mention this won't be that efficient to call, and it has limitations like 75 requests per window (15min) , insted of this we can use user_timeline

the best way: 1. get the screen_name or user_id parameters From status/show.
2. now use user_timeline
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=screen_name&count=count

(screen_name== name which we got From status/show)
(count== 1 to max 200)
count: Specifies the number of Tweets to try and retrieve, up to a maximum of 200 per distinct request.

from the result Just parse that return looking for an in_reply_to_status_id matching the original tweet's id.

Obviously, it's not ideal, but it will work.

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