I have been trying to retrieve conversation threads using Tweepy, and although the functionality has been added to the Twitter api (conversation_id is an optional parameter), it has not been added to Tweepy. I was wondering if anyone was familiar enough with Tweepy that they might know a way to achieve this?
Here is my code to get the conversation_id and also to download the conversations. Hopefully it helps people with similar issues. I have only included the required functions not the whole files, so I haven't listed the modules required like requests and base64, but they should be quite obvious.
The code to get the bearer token and create the header I got from here with the Twitter API - how can I get authentication for the engagement endpoint using a bearer token but I reposted below for convenience
# returns a bearer_header to attach to requests to the Twitter api v2 enpoints which are
# not yet supported by tweepy
def get_bearer_header():
uri_token_endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token'
key_secret = f"{twitter_creds.consumer_key}:{twitter_creds.consumer_key_secret}".encode('ascii')
b64_encoded_key = base64.b64encode(key_secret)
b64_encoded_key = b64_encoded_key.decode('ascii')
auth_headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic {}'.format(b64_encoded_key),
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'
}
auth_data = {
'grant_type': 'client_credentials'
}
auth_resp = requests.post(uri_token_endpoint, headers=auth_headers, data=auth_data)
bearer_token = auth_resp.json()['access_token']
bearer_header = {
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(bearer_token),
'oauth_consumer_key': twitter_creds.consumer_key
}
return bearer_header
# Returns the conversation_id of a tweet from v2 endpoint using the tweet id
def getConversationId(id):
uri = 'https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets?'
params = {
'ids':id,
'tweet.fields':'conversation_id'
}
bearer_header = get_bearer_header()
resp = requests.get(uri, headers=bearer_header, params=params)
return resp.json()['data'][0]['conversation_id']
# Returns a conversation from the v2 enpoint of type [<original_tweet_text>, <[replies]>]
def getConversation(conversation_id):
uri = 'https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/recent?'
params = {'query': f'conversation_id:{conversation_id}',
'tweet.fields': 'in_reply_to_user_id',
'tweet.fields':'conversation_id'
}
bearer_header = twitter_auth.get_bearer_header()
resp = requests.get(uri, headers=bearer_header, params=params)
return resp.json()
Tweepy does not support v2 of the API yet, although there are plans for this in the coming year .
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