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Twitter api exclude retweets in stream

I’m using Node.js package Twit to stream tweets and currently it’s including retweets as well but I don’t want it to. My code looks like this: 

var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: '#myhashtag' });

and I’ve tried this but it didn’t work: 

var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: '#myhashtag' }, '-filter:retweets');
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  1. 0

    The filter should be concatenated to the end of your query as shown below.

    var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: '#myhashtag -filter:retweets' });
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  2. 0

    After quite a research i think the ‘-filter:retweets’ operator for query parameter has been outdated what worked for me was ‘-RT’ operator.

    var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: '#myhashtag -RT' });
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  3. 0

    when the tweet is a retweet, there is an existence of retweeted_status, otherwise it is undefined. maybe this will help:

    if (tweet.retweeted_status == undefined) {

}

    alternatively, another user proposed a function that might help:
    https://github.com/ttezel/twit/issues/286#issuecomment-236315960

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