Question

I would like to know how to retrieve more than 200 tweets from a twitter page. I know its limited to 200 but read you can retrieve more,Im using php and using this following line of code to get the 200 tweets

  $xmldata = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/BBCNews.xml?count=200';

Could someone show me some example code in how to do this?

thanks

Answer 1

With the twitter API you can only get up to 200 posts per page. You would have to add a &page=x to get the page of tweets (there is a hard limit of 3200 posts)

View the api documentation here

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline

An example of the api call for json would be

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=twitterapi&count=200&page=2

and an example for the xml call would be

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=twitterapi&count=200&page=2

So what i would suggest is if you want to get all 3200 posts is to set up the script in a function to change the page number each time