Just to add a sprinkle of salt, I haven't explored all the Twitter API
functionality, but I do know of one parameter that's something like
"olderthan" (or maybe "older"). This accepts a tweet number (index)
and instructs the API to retrieve updates earlier than this.
Unfortunately this isn't timeframe-based, and still requires you to
grab the "top" index value in some way (usually by parsing XML data!),
but once you have the index value it should be fairly straightforward.
On Aug 31, 12:12 pm, DMain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how if it's possible to receive the number of search
> results on a specified timeframe?
>
> The following url returns all tweets from a day, but I have to parse
> all results (and hope that their number is less than 1500). Also I
> would prefer to have this number on a hourly
> basis.http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?until=2009-08-26&since=2009-08-...
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks Dominic
