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Getting the text of the tweet only having tweet id without Elevated access to Twitter developer account – Twitter API

I tried using tweepy and TwitterAPI but both those solutions do not work because I have Essential access to Twitter developer account and not Elevated (elevated app got rejected).

Basically doing:

  • tweepy:
# authorization of consumer key and consumer secret

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
  
# set access to user's access key and access secret 
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
  
#  calling the api 
api = tweepy.API(auth)
  
# the ID of the status
id = 1272771459249844224
  
# fetching the status
status = api.get_status(id)
  
#  fetching the text attribute

text = status.text
  • Twitter API:
r = api.request('statuses/show/:%d' % 210462857140252672)

print(r.text)

Both of those solutions do not work. I think all the solutions that include access keys stuff will not work.

I also tried some web scraping but it also does not work. This is what I tried:

from lxml import html

import requests

page = requests.get('https://twitter.com/UniteAlbertans/status/572342978255048705')

print(page.text)

tree = html.fromstring(page.content)

tree.xpath('//span[@class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"]/text()')

But I do not think that works because when I print the page text I do not even see the text of the tweet.

Could someone help me how I could get the text of the tweet given tweet ID through code?

Thank you so much 🙂

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Answers


  1. 0

    This works using Tweepy and the v2 Twitter API (documentation here):

    Client.get_tweet(id)
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  2. 0

    If you have Essential Access, then you can just use the Tweepy Twitter API v2 methods. So generally, you can’t access tweepy.API, instead you have to find a way with tweepy.Client.

    To get the text of a tweet by tweet id, try:

    import tweepy

# token for twitter developers
client = tweepy.Client(
    bearer_token="<bearer_token>",
    consumer_key="<consumer_key>",
    consumer_secret="<consumer_secret>",
    access_token="<access_token>",
    access_token_secret="<access_token_secret>",
)

# find tweet by id
tweet = client.get_tweet(id=<tweet_id_here>)

# extract data from tweet
text = tweet.data
print(text)

    Be sure, that you have installed the latest version of tweepy. In my case i had tweepy version 4.4.0.

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