Unable to get a user replies

[louisgrasset]

I'm trying to get the lastest 50 tweets (expecting tweets and replies) but it sounds like I'm only able to get:

• tweets
• retweets.

I'm leveraging getTweets('userHandle', 50) to do so, no auth required. Am I missing something? Is this a bug or an expected behavior?

From what I see, Twitter isn't allowing non-authenticated webapp to access replies, may this be the reason?

[karashiiro]

I believe that's probably what's happening — I'll have to check if we get more data when authenticated via the API method that uses.

[karashiiro]

I'd consider this a bug for now, but given that we're at the whims of ~~the company formerly known as~~ Twitter, this might have to become the new expected behavior, at least while unauthenticated.

[whynotmarc]

I'd consider this a bug for now, but given that we're at the whims of ~the company formerly known as~ Twitter, this might have to become the new expected behavior, at least while unauthenticated.

It seems like even while authenticated replies don't show when using getTweets

[louisgrasset]

You may be totally true, when I discovered that issue, I moved my code to use the following: searchTweets(`from:@${handle}`, 50, SearchMode.Latest)

[whynotmarc]

With authentication you can use fetchSearchTweets. Something along the lines of this:

  const tweets = []
  const maxTweets = 50
  const query = `(from:${userHandle}) filter:replies`
  
  let cursor
  let nTweets = 0
  while (nTweets < maxTweets) {
    const res = await scraper.fetchSearchTweets(
      query,
      maxTweets,
      SearchMode.Latest,
      cursor
    )

    if (res.tweets.length === 0) break

    nTweets += res.tweets.length
    cursor = res.next
    tweets.push(...res.tweets)
  }