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Fetch twitter

social • 3rd party API • integration

Enriches a dataset containing tweets with information about their authors.

In addition to author information also adds the location the tweet was send from (if available), and indicates whether a tweet was retweeted or favourited at least once. See below for a detailed list of the enrichment columns.

API integration

To use this step you will need to create an app associated to your Twitter account, and obtain four items: the consumer_key, the consumer_secret, the token and the token_secret.

To do so you can follow the steps here, and then add them to a Graphext integration.

Usage

The following are the step's expected inputs and outputs and their specific types.

Step signature
fetch_twitter(tweet_ids: category|number, {
    "param": value
}) -> (
    user_created_at: date,
    user_description: text,
    user_favourites_count: number,
    user_followers_count: number,
    user_following_count: number,
    user_listed_count: number,
    user_profile_image_url_https: url,
    user_protected: boolean,
    user_tweets_count: number,
    user_profile_url: url,
    user_verified: boolean,
    user_location: category,
    lat: number,
    long: number,
    retweeted: boolean,
    favorited: boolean,
    source: category
)

where the object {"param": value} is optional in most cases and if present may contain any of the parameters described in the corresponding section below.

Example

This step doesn't have any configuration parameters. Hence simply:

Example call (in recipe editor)
fetch_twitter(ds.id) -> (
  ds.user_created_at,
  ds.user_description,
  ds.user_favourites_count,
  ds.user_followers_count,
  ds.user_following_count,
  ds.user_listed_count,
  ds.user_profile_image_url_https,
  ds.user_protected,
  ds.user_tweets_count,
  ds.user_profile_url,
  ds.user_verified,
  ds.user_location,
  ds.lat,
  ds.long,
  ds.retweeted,
  ds.favorited,
  ds.source
)

Inputs

tweet_ids: column:category|number

Twitter's unique identifier for each tweet.

Outputs

user_created_at: column:date

Time the user who tweeted this tweet was created.

user_description: column:text

Self-description of the user.

user_favourites_count: column:number

How many tweets the user has favorited.

user_followers_count: column:number

How many followers the user has.

user_following_count: column:number

How many users the user is following.

user_listed_count: column:number

How many times the user has been listed in public listings.

user_profile_image_url_https: column:url

User's picture.

user_protected: column:boolean

Whether this user has protected their tweets or not.

user_tweets_count: column:number

How many times this user has tweeted.

user_profile_url: column:url

User's profile url.

user_verified: column:boolean

Whether this user is verified or not.

user_location: column:category

Location extracted from the author profile.

lat: column:number

Latitude this tweet was tweeted from.

long: column:number

Longitude this tweet was tweeted from.

retweeted: column:boolean

Whether you have retweeted this tweet.

favorited: column:boolean

Whether you have favorited this tweet.

source: column:category

Where this tweet was tweeted from as a HTML string.

Parameters

integration: string

ID of the integration you'd like to use.