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Asked: 2026-05-16T14:07:28+00:00

Is there a possibility to search for tweets which link to a specific URL

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Is there a possibility to search for tweets which link to a specific URL or, even better, domain?

There is already a service doing this, but I can’t figure out how to do it myself via the twitter-Api…

http://backtweets.com/api

It seems rather impossible to just collect all tweets which include a URL, expand the URL, save them all and just then look for certain URLs..

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  1. Editorial Team

    New solution:

    You can use the api method get-tweet-search from Twitters api. To find tweets containing an url you have to pass the parameter q="url:stackoverflow.com". Unfortunately you must have an access token to do this call.

    More info how to use Twitters search operators can be found at https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/guides/standard-operators.

    This answer is now soon 8 years old. Twitter have changed their api since.

    Old answer:

    Hope this might be to any help.

    http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=<query>
You can use .atom (xml) and .json. Just remeber to url-encode the string.

Example:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=stackoverflow.com

    Read the Documentation Here

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