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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. ???+ info “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.

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Usage

The following example shows how the step can be used in a recipe.

Examples

  • Example 1
  • Signature
This step doesn’t have any configuration parameters. Hence simply:
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
)

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Inputs & Outputs

The following are the inputs expected by the step and the outputs it produces. These are generally columns (ds.first_name), datasets (ds or ds[["first_name", "last_name"]]) or models (referenced by name e.g. "churn-clf").
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tweet_ids
column[category|number]
required
Twitter’s unique identifier for each tweet.
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user_created_at
column[date]
required
Time the user who tweeted this tweet was created.
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user_description
column[text]
required
Self-description of the user.
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user_favourites_count
column[number]
required
How many tweets the user has favorited.
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user_followers_count
column[number]
required
How many followers the user has.
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user_following_count
column[number]
required
How many users the user is following.
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user_listed_count
column[number]
required
How many times the user has been listed in public listings.
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user_profile_image_url_https
column[url]
required
User’s picture.
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user_protected
column[boolean]
required
Whether this user has protected their tweets or not.
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user_tweets_count
column[number]
required
How many times this user has tweeted.
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user_profile_url
column[url]
required
User’s profile url.
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user_verified
column[boolean]
required
Whether this user is verified or not.
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user_location
column[category]
required
Location extracted from the author profile.
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lat
column[number]
required
Latitude this tweet was tweeted from.
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long
column[number]
required
Longitude this tweet was tweeted from.
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retweeted
column[boolean]
required
Whether you have retweeted this tweet.
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favorited
column[boolean]
required
Whether you have favorited this tweet.
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source
column[category]
required
Where this tweet was tweeted from as a HTML string.

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Configuration

The following parameters can be used to configure the behaviour of the step by including them in a json object as the last “input” to the step, i.e. step(..., {"param": "value", ...}) -> (output).

Parameters

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integration
string
required
ID of the integration you’d like to use.
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