twittered VS getting-started-with-the-twitter-api-v2-for-academic-research

The problem is that APIs don’t work well with version 2. Even twitter itself hasn’t ported media upload to version 2 so they expect you to use version one for images and version two for everything else. The documentation is plentiful and unhelpful for anything beyond the most basic use cases. Pretty frustrating. If you have experience with server side social networks and know what to do with this issue, then drop me a line.

It might save you a lot of work to start of with https://github.com/redouane59/twittered and just convert the code to Kotlin as a baseline

Sometimes professors don't want their students spending too much time writing code to get Twitter data using the API. Twitter recently launched the Downloader tool that lets researchers specify the search query for which they want the data, the time period and the format in which they would like the data i.e. JSON or CSV. Once specified, they can download the data and use for their assignments and projects. Learn more about how to write search queries here

In June, we launched a comprehensive course on getting started with the Twitter API v2 for academic research. This course is available for free and contains content, cheatsheets and code samples in Python and R to help academics learn how to get the Twitter data for research studies using the Twitter API. Since its launch, this course has been adopted as a prerequisite model by various professors who teach courses on computational social sciences, text mining etc.

In order to search Tweets from the last 7 days, you can use the search_recent_tweets function available in Tweepy. You will have to pass it a search query to specify the data that you are looking for. In the example below, we are searching for Tweets from the last days from the Twitter handle suhemparack and we are excluding retweets using -is:retweet.

In order to follow this tutorial, you need an approved Twitter developer account. Once you have a developer account, you will need a bearer token to connect to the Twitter API v2 to get the Tweets. Follow these instructions for obtaining a bearer token.