> I am wanting to find out the total number of Topsy Response objects
> from /search for a given time period, defined by query parameters
> [minTime,maxTime].

> In looking at the API docs for the /searchcount Resource, I am left
> with a few questions:

> 1) Will this call be able to take the time window for the search based
> on a  [minTime,  maxTime] ?

> 2) What do the fields {w,h,a,d,m} mean in the response?

> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer !

> Ed

> {
>   "request" : {
>      "parameters" : {
>         "q" : "Barack Obama"
>      },
>      "response_type" : "json",
>      "resource" : "searchcount",
>      "url" : "http://otter.topsy.com/searchcount.json?q=Barack+Obama"
>   },
>   "response" : {
>      "w" : 2085,
>      "h" : 6,
>      "a" : 572027,
>      "d" : 330,
>      "m" : 9122
>   }
> }

> When I run this query:

> http://otter.topsy.com/searchcount.json?mintime=1288591200&maxtime=12...

> It seems like the /searchcount Resource returned does not take into
> account the [mintime,maxtime] window, and instead returns

> a = all tweets from the current time
> m = the tweets from the last month
> w = the tweets from the last week
> d = the tweets from the last day
> h = the tweets from the last hour

> Not 100% sure that /searchcount does indeed ignore any [mintime, maxtime]
> though, but I think so at this point...

> Thanks
> Ed

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Ed <macker...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hello

>> I am wanting to find out the total number of Topsy Response objects
>> from /search for a given time period, defined by query parameters
>> [minTime,maxTime].

>> In looking at the API docs for the /searchcount Resource, I am left
>> with a few questions:

>> 1) Will this call be able to take the time window for the search based
>> on a  [minTime,  maxTime] ?

>> 2) What do the fields {w,h,a,d,m} mean in the response?

>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer !

>> Ed

>> {
>>   "request" : {
>>      "parameters" : {
>>         "q" : "Barack Obama"
>>      },
>>      "response_type" : "json",
>>      "resource" : "searchcount",
>>      "url" : "http://otter.topsy.com/searchcount.json?q=Barack+Obama"
>>   },
>>   "response" : {
>>      "w" : 2085,
>>      "h" : 6,
>>      "a" : 572027,
>>      "d" : 330,
>>      "m" : 9122
>>   }
>> }