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A Favour: Anyone with a Datasift or Gnip substription

  • 25-04-2017 10:01am
    #1
    illdoit2morrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Would anyone out there have a subscription to either Datasift or Gnip to get some historical Twitter Data for a college project?

    My chosen topic doesn't have much Twitter activity, when using the Twitter API I am getting approx. 30-40 Tweets for the last 7 days. Ideally I'd just like to get all Tweets for as far back as possible for a single topic, but I can't afford the cost of a subscription for either service.

    This would be a one off request, once I have data I can work with it.

    Or if anyone might know of another way to get historical Twitter data, please let me know.

    TIA


Comments

  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Have you looked at their developer API?
    https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search


  • #3
    illdoit2morrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow


    Buford T Justice wrote: »
    Have you looked at their developer API?
    https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search

    Yes, there is a cap on the amount of data that can be returned unfortunately, it is limited to 7 days history


  • #4
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Did you contact them and explain what you're looking for?

    You'd be surprised at how helpful some places can be when it comes to students......


  • #5
    illdoit2morrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow


    Buford T Justice wrote: »
    Did you contact them and explain what you're looking for?

    You'd be surprised at how helpful some places can be when it comes to students......

    Not Twitter directly, but I did try Datasift and Gnip. Both came back to me saying they didn't offer anything for academic purposes.


  • #6
    hooplah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭hooplah


    Can you change your topic?

    There are a lot of interesting collections where people have gathered tweets over time. I wonder if they might work?

    Twarc is a tool for gathering tweets used by a good few academics, it might be worth a look.
    https://github.com/DocNow/twarc

    A twitter search for twarc throws up a few results.

    Nick Ruest [@ruebot] is a librarian / programmer who has built up a huge collections of tweets - basically he's tracking anonymous Wikipedia edits that are made from Canadian Government IP addresses. They're tweeted here: https://twitter.com/gccaedits and archived here: https://github.com/ruebot/gccaedits_data


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