使用Twython或Tweepy检查Tweet是否是答复？

Question

Is there a way, given a tweet ID, to check if a tweet is a reply rather than an original tweet? If so, is there a way to get the ID of the tweet that the original tweet is in reply to?

Answer 1

Looking at Twitter Documentation you see that a tweet object has

in_reply_to_status_id

Nullable. If the represented Tweet is a reply, this field will contain the integer representation of the original Tweet's ID.

Example: "in_reply_to_status_id":114749583439036416

Using tweepy you can do something like this:

user_tweets = constants.api.user_timeline(user_id=user_id, count=100)

    for tweet in user_tweets:
        if tweet.in_reply_to_status_id is not None:
            # Tweet is a reply
            is_reply = True
        else:
            # Tweet is not a reply
            is_reply = False

If you're looking for a specific tweet and you have the id then you want to use get_status like this:

tweet = constants.api.get_status(tweet_id)

if tweet.in_reply_to_status_id is not None:
    # Tweet is a reply
    is_reply = True
else:
    # Tweet is not a reply
    is_reply = False

Where api is:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)