Twitter API

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John Cen edited this page Feb 7, 2019 · 1 revision

Important Twitter Endpoints

Get statuses/home_timeline

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-home_timeline
Returns a collection of the most recent tweets of the authenticated user and users they follow
A maximum of 200 can be retrieved
Tweets include number of likes and comments however replies are not available for standard api access. Replies can be viewed using the mentions end point

Get statuses/mentions_timeline

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-mentions_timeline
Returns all mentions
Useful for finding replies to tweets
Includes the id of the tweet the user is responding to