legnus Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 I've been digging around Twitter APIs lately for fun and came up upon something mildly interesting regarding the "Quote Retweet" API. Usually the "Quote Retweet" API is a private one, we can not see the quote retweets of a tweet without signing in to twitter or using some valid OAuth credentials from their twitter. On the other hand, the search API is public. If we call "https://twitter.com/search?q=quoted_tweet_id:1234567890" and of course replace 123456790 by a valid tweet id, we would have bypassed twitter's restrictions to the this API. I don't know if this was intended by twitter, or just "feature", nevertheless it's a cool feature for anyone who wants to scrap some free data off twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcsinx Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 (edited) Likewise not sure whether it's intended. You can get the same functionality by searching for the full URL of the quoted tweet: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FpathfinderSport%2Fstatus%2F1234567890&src=typed_query Edited November 7, 2022 by arcsinx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbstractObserver Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 This kind of thing happen when you start to cram so much complexity in the API, I'd say its working as intended and move to another ticket on Jira 😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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