# Twitter Tweets

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To enable this engine, set the **`engine=twitter_tweets`** parameter.
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Scraping Twitter tweets is a powerful technique for gathering meaningful insights about trending topics, user opinions, and sentiments. With our API, you can easily extract tweets enabling you to identify emerging trends and understand what people are talking about in real-time.

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### Twitter Tweets API Specific Parameters

#### #1: URL Parameter

<table><thead><tr><th width="133.33333333333331">Parameter</th><th width="99">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>url</code><br><mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">required</mark></td><td><code>string</code></td><td>The URL of the tweet you are looking to scrape information from.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Twitter Tweets API Integration Examples

We will use following URL as an example for this request:

```
https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400
```

### Ready to Use Twitter Profile Scraping Scripts:

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```bash
curl --request GET --url "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"
```

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```javascript
const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "social.webscrapingapi.com",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  "headers": {}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();
```

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```python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("social.webscrapingapi.com")

conn.request("GET", "/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))
```

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```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

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```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

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```java
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")
    .asString();
```

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{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```csharp
var client = new RestClient("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

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```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

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<details>

<summary>Response Example</summary>

```json
{
  "search_parameters": {
    "twitter_url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
    "engine": "twitter",
    "twitter_domain": "twitter.com",
    "device": "desktop",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"
  },
  "search_information": {
    "organic_results_state": "Results for exact spelling",
    "total_results": null,
    "query_displayed": null
  },
  "post_id": "1508551897287782400",
  "post_url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  "post_text": "My favorite moment of the #Oscars is my mom- the real Linda Mitchell- meeting Maya Rudolph- who is just a national treasure.  It made me so unbelievably happy.    @DebbieRianda ’s year is made!",
  "post_time": "2022-03-28T17:08:51.000Z",
  "post_retweets": 379,
  "post_comments": 53,
  "post_likes": 6503,
  "status": "Ok"
}
```

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