Query total tweet count about search-tweets-python HOT 6 CLOSED

Hey there, I missed the mention from two weeks ago ;(

Are you suggesting that a call to the counts endpoint should also provide a 'total counts', that is a grand total across however many paginated responses are needed?

Yes, that would be a useful 'helper' function. FWIW, the TwitterDev Ruby client I wrote does that.

I recently adopted this Python library to get it ready for Labs (and soon v2). These new versions of search do not yet include a counts endpoint. The counts functionality is on the roadmap, so when that time comes, the Labs/v2 client should be updated to offer a helpful grand total.

For the enterprise/premium branch, let's hope for a pull request with those updates.

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@casassg Yeah I agree with you. It will really help.

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Thanks for the suggestion, @casassg. It's an interesting approach, and I can imagine how it could be built on top of the existing /counts API functionality. One aspect that may be challenging for your accounting use case, is that the requests aren't guaranteed to include the max 500 activities because pagination occurs over both activity count and time (30 days). I'm not certain where in the library would make the most sense to implement this, but I'll talk with the team and report back.

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@jrmontag Is there any update to this? Any way to determine the total tweet count for given query.

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@jimmoffitt tagging you here just in case you have more insights here 😄

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@jimmoffitt mind if we re-open the issue to track whenver that gets merged? Also, it may be worth adding to the roadmap a way to get the full count of the data. I used to use this w @jenningsanderson to calculate how many requests we would need to download a dataset for @Project-EPIC. This would allow us to estimate cost better.

This is similar to the historical powertrack used to do back in GNIP days

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