Tweet ID get rounded

[Fchen48]

I want to save the ID of a tweet but I will receive something like this
1026837156479718000
instead of
1026837156479717985

Is there a way to disable the rounded numbers?

[nielsgl]

@Fchen48 it's not because of the library, it's because Javascript cannot support numbers with > 53-bits, see: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/twitter-ids

[fleshTH]

But the library, knowing that this is a limitation, could work around it. The easiest way would be to preprocess the JSON string for ids.json to make them all strings before parsing them. I'm sure there is a more elegant way, but that is a workaround.

After further inspecting the API, there is an option you can add for the ids.json request to "stringify ids"

Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Example
stringify_ids	optional	Some programming environments will not consume Twitter IDs due to their size. Provide this option to have IDs returned as strings instead. More about Twitter IDs.	false	true

You can pass this as a parameter for the client: client.get("followers/ids", { screen_name:"twitterdev", "stringify_ids":true }, callback)

[jagdeepjd11]

hello, I don't know if I should be posting here but I need help regarding a twitter bot which I am trying to make (which will reply to a particular phrase or hashtag) but something is wrong. I will appreciate if anyone can help solve it. here is the code

console.log('the bot is starting');

var Twit = require ('twit');

var config = require('./config'); var T = new Twit(config);

var query = "alot"; T.get('search/tweets', { q: query, count: 1, lang: "en" }, function (error, tweets, response) { var tweetList = tweets['statuses'];

    for (var i = 0; i < tweetList.length; i++) {
        var id = { id: tweetList[i].id_str }
        if ('retweeted_status' in tweetList[i]) 
            continue;
        }
   
    
        var message = "Alot confused, a lot not understand feelings";
        var tweetId = tweetList[i].id_str

        try {
            T.post('statuses/update',
                { "status": message, "in_reply_to_status_id": tweetId },
                function (error, tweets, response) {
                    console.log("Tweet posted successfully!")
                });
        }
        catch (err) {
            console.log(err);
    }
});

[dandv]

See https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite#numeric-vs-string-ids