Get tweets of a public twitter profile

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Dexter picture Dexter · May 31, 2010 · Viewed 37.2k times · Source

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?

Answer

Tyler picture Tyler · Jun 1, 2010

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.

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