fetch_twitter

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.

Usage

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

Examples

Example 1
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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
)

General syntax for using the step in a recipe. Shows the inputs and outputs the step is expected to receive and will produce respectively. For futher details see sections below.

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
)

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").

Inputs

column[category|number]

required

Twitter’s unique identifier for each tweet.

Outputs

column[date]

required

Time the user who tweeted this tweet was created.

column[text]

required

Self-description of the user.

column[number]

required

How many tweets the user has favorited.

column[number]

required

How many followers the user has.

column[number]

required

How many users the user is following.

column[number]

required

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

column[url]

required

User’s picture.

column[boolean]

required

Whether this user has protected their tweets or not.

column[number]

required

How many times this user has tweeted.

column[url]

required

User’s profile url.

column[boolean]

required

Whether this user is verified or not.

column[category]

required

Location extracted from the author profile.

column[number]

required

Latitude this tweet was tweeted from.

column[number]

required

Longitude this tweet was tweeted from.

column[boolean]

required

Whether you have retweeted this tweet.

column[boolean]

required

Whether you have favorited this tweet.

column[category]

required

Where this tweet was tweeted from as a HTML string.

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

string

required

ID of the integration you’d like to use.

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