Find ALL tweets from a user not just the first 3 200

Question

With https   dev twitter com docs api 1 get statuses user timeline I can get 3 200 most recent tweets  However  certain sites like http   www mytweet16 com  seems to bypass the limit  and my browse through the API documentation could not find anything    How do they do it  or is there another API that doesn t have the limit

User · Accepted Answer

You can use twitter search page to bypass 3,200 limit. However you have to scroll down many times in the search results page. For example, I searched tweets from @beyinsiz_adam. This is the link of search results: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abeyinsiz_adam&src=typd&f=realtime

Now in order to scroll down many times, you can use the following javascript code.

    var myVar=setInterval(function(){myTimer()},1000);
    function myTimer() {
        window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);
    }

Just run it in the FireBug console. And wait some time to load all tweets.

User · Answer

I ve been in this  Twitter  industry for a long time and witnessed lots of changes in Twitter API and documentation  I would like to clarify one thing to you  There is no way to surpass 3200 tweets limit  Twitter doesn t provide this data even in its new premium API    The only way someone can surpass this limit is by saving the tweets of an individual Twitter user   There are tools available which claim to have a wide database and provide more than 3200 tweets  Few of them are followersanalysis com  keyhole co which I know of

User · Answer

Not all twitter API users are created equal  - some are more equal than others     https   dev twitter com docs streaming-api methods  For thine not that equal they suggest creative using of other techniques  You may get more luck by using search api calls with time    id limitation

User · Answer

I can confirm that the maximum can be slightly over 3200  I m getting up to 3231 right now

User · Answer

You can use a tool I wrote that bypasses the limit   It saves the Tweets in a JSON format   https   github com pauldotknopf twitter-dump

User · Answer

http   greptweet com  is an attempt to surpass the 3200 limit by backing up tweets  and besides that is useful for simple searches

User · Answer

You could check https   www allmytweets net   This saves all the tweets

User · Answer

The only way to see more is to start saving them before the user s tweet count hits 3200  Services which show more than 3200 tweets have saved them in their own dbs  There s currently no way to get more than that through any Twitter API   http   www quora com Is-there-a-way-to-get-more-than-3200-tweets-from-a-twitter-user-using-Twitters-API-or-scraping  https   dev twitter com discussions 276  Note from that second link      the 3 200 limit is for browsing the timeline only  Tweets can always be requested by their ID using the GET statuses show  id method

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