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Asked: 2026-06-06T16:20:35+00:00

I previously asked a question about fetching the last 100 mentions for a person

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I previously asked a question about fetching the last 100 mentions for a person via the twitter api. Now I succeeded in that, I noticed that the twitter api by default doesn’t have a ‘location’ tag. I believe that is related to the ‘search.twitter.com’ result

Below you can find the code I use and the twitter search querystring.
Can I add something which will force to show the location ?

Thanks in advance!

tweets = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=BarackObama&rpp=5&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed').read())['results'][0:3]
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  1. Editorial Team

    If there are Geo Co-ordinates recorded when the tweet was sent, you will retrieve them in your search contained in the coordinates field. If it is absent, or nul then it was not recorded.

    If you want to force it to only give you back tweets that have coordinates stored in them, then you can use the optional geocode parameter.

    Returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude. The location is preferentially taking from the Geotagging API, but will fall back to their Twitter profile. The parameter value is specified by "latitude,longitude,radius", where radius units must be specified as either "mi" (miles) or "km" (kilometers). Note that you cannot use the near operator via the API to geocode arbitrary locations; however you can use this geocode parameter to search near geocodes directly.

    Example Values: 37.781157,-122.398720,1mi

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