Twitter API - Get tweets from last 24 hours or last hour

Question

Im working with the Twitter API and havent found out how to get the tweets from only the last hour for example?

I cannot figure it out how to get tweets only from last 24 or from last 1 hour.. Can someone help me?

Here is my script. This script counts the tweets currently but from last 7 days as normal...

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
require_once('TwitterAPIClass/TwitterAPIExchange.php');

/** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/
$settings = array(
    'oauth_access_token' => "XXXXX",
    'oauth_access_token_secret' => "YYYYY",
    'consumer_key' => "XXXX",
    'consumer_secret' => "YYYY"
);


$query = '%24synx';
$max_id = 0;
$tweets_count = 0;

while (true) {
  // First API call
  if ($max_id == 0) {
    $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
    $getfield = "?q=".$query."&count=100";
    $requestMethod = 'GET';
    $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
    $twitter_data = json_decode($twitter->setGetfield($getfield)->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)->performRequest(), true);

   // Repeated API call
   } else {
    // Collect older tweets
    --$max_id;

    $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
    $getfield = "?q=".$query."&count=100&max_id=".$max_id."";
    $requestMethod = 'GET';
    $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
    $twitter_data = json_decode($twitter->setGetfield($getfield)->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)->performRequest(), true);
  }          

$tweets = $twitter_data['statuses'];

print_r($tweets);

// Exit loop when no more tweets are returned
if (sizeof($tweets)==0) {
    break;
  }

    // Count tweets
    foreach($tweets as $tweet) {
    ++$tweets_count;
    $max_id = $tweet['id'];
  } 

//Sleep 3 seconds after every API call, to not exceed API rate limit
sleep(3);  
}


echo $tweets_count;      
?>

Answer 1

In this loop

foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {
    ++$tweets_count;
    $max_id = $tweet['id'];
}         

Check the date/time of the tweet ( $tweet['created_at'] ). When the value is more than 24 hours old exit the outer while loop.