Twitter Search Data for a keyword

[Rohan]

Hi,

I'm new to twitter api and doing an academic project for behavior
analysis for specific set of tweets. I'm interested in getting the
past data for a particular search query ( combination of keywords and
certain constraints ) for a period of at least 2 month and if possible
further.
The Search API lets us retrieve only 1500 tweets. Is that correct?
What can be the possible methods/or already implemented code to
download such a dataset?

Thanks and Regards,
Rohan Anand
IIT Delhi

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi Rohan,

Unfortunately archived data is not the Twitter API's strongest point. The Search API's index usually only reaches back about a week. You'd be better enabled to collect data by focusing on a current topic and using the streaming API to receive relevant matching tweets in real time as they occur.

@episod - Taylor Singletary

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