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maulwurf87 / replies.py
Created July 30, 2020 18:13 — forked from edsu/replies.py
Try to get replies to a particular set of tweets, recursively.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Twitter's API doesn't allow you to get replies to a particular tweet. Strange
but true. But you can use Twitter's Search API to search for tweets that are
directed at a particular user, and then search through the results to see if
any are replies to a given tweet. You probably are also interested in the
replies to any replies as well, so the process is recursive. The big caveat
here is that the search API only returns results for the last 7 days. So