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Twitter API Javascript extended mode

I am using twitter stream API with Javascript in order to collect tweets. The problem is that I am not using the extended mode and I don’t get the full tweet when it is greater than 140 characters. I have searched info and I discovered that I need to pass tweet_mode=extended in the request and the response will contain a full_text which is the tweet complete. The problem is that I don’t know where to write tweet_mode=extended. This is my code:

    twitter.stream('statuses/filter', {track: word, function (stream) {
            stream.on('data', function (tweet) {
                 console.log(tweet.text)
            });
            stream.on('error', function (error) {
                console.log("error:", error);
            })
        })
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  1. 0

    Unfortunately the streaming API does not have the option to add the tweet_mode param

    Documentation here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/tweet-updates

    This paragraph is of note to your concern:

    The Streaming API does not provide the same ability to provide query
    parameters to configure request options. Therefore, the Streaming API
    renders all Tweets in compatibility mode at this time.

    …

    Streaming API consumers should update their code to first check for
    the presence of the extended_tweet dictionary, and use that in
    preference to the truncated data as is applicable for their use case.
    When extended_tweet is not present, they must fall back to using the
    existing fields.

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  2. 0

    As Van said, tweets in streaming API are mixed. So you can try this :

    twitter.stream('statuses/filter', {track: word, function (stream) {
        stream.on('data', function (tweet) {
             let text = tweet.extended_tweet?tweet.extended_tweet.full_text:tweet.full_text?tweet.full_text:tweet.text;
             console.log(text)
        });
        stream.on('error', function (error) {
            console.log("error:", error);
        })
    })
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