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gwendall

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Jun 18, 2012, 3:22:46 PM6/18/12
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Hi,

Is there any way to search the crunchbase API to find objects through
their Twitter handles?

Thanks
Gwen

Vineet Thanedar

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Jun 18, 2012, 6:00:25 PM6/18/12
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Gwen,

At the moment no, there isn't a way to search for twitter handles.

Vineet
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Luke Otterblad

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Jun 27, 2012, 10:37:06 AM6/27/12
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There is one way but involves moving from sql to the json database Couchdb.

If you use api to gather all companies javascript objects then you can dump them into couchdb and write 
map function in javascript this:

function(doc) {
    if(doc.twitter_username) {
            emit(doc.permalink, doc.twitter_username)
    }
}



I ran this on my modified crunchbase in couchdb(the query is slow when testing but works). It returned the Key | Values like this(First 8 included ):



On Monday, June 18, 2012 5:00:25 PM UTC-5, Vineet Thanedar wrote:

Gwen,

At the moment no, there isn't a way to search for twitter handles.

Vineet

On Monday, June 18, 2012, gwendall wrote:
Hi,

Is there any way to search the crunchbase API to find objects through
their Twitter handles?

Thanks
Gwen

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