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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon timhutton

Feature request: fetch other tweets in threads

Open hyc opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

While discussing support for threads in #23 - it would be nice to have an option to fetch other people's tweets that you replied to, so that entire threads are preserved, not just your own replies.

hyc avatar Nov 18 '22 18:11 hyc

The PR #97 is merged into the branch downloadtweets now and provides that basic functionality (which is still evolving) to download the tweets that you replied to. The downloaded tweet is not used in any way yet. See that PR for the overall idea on how to proceed.

This does not include the full thread / conversation that came before our own tweet. I don't know if there is a special API endpoint to fetch them all at once, or if we would have to get from each tweet to the previous one bit by bit.

lenaschimmel avatar Nov 22 '22 09:11 lenaschimmel

Nice, thanks for digging into this. Does it seem like the rate limits on fetching tweets is going to be problematic?

hyc avatar Nov 22 '22 20:11 hyc