NAME

Net::Twitter::Search Twitter Search

SYNOPSYS

  use Net::Twitter::Search;

  my $twitter = Net::Twitter::Search->new();

  my $results = $twitter->search('Albi the racist dragon');
  foreach my $tweet (@{ $results }) {
    my $speaker =  $tweet->{from_user};
    my $text = $tweet->{text};
    my $time = $tweet->{created_at};
    print "$time <$speaker> $text\n";
  }

   #you can also use any methods from Net::Twitter.
   my $twitter = Net::Twitter::Search->new(username => $username, password => $password);
   my $steve = $twitter->search('Steve');
   $twitter->update($steve .'? Who is steve?');
    

DESCRIPTION

For searching twitter - handy for bots

METHOD

search

required parameter: query

returns: hash

EXAMPLES

Find tweets containing a word

  $results = $twitter->search('word');

Find tweets from a user:

  $results = $twitter->search('from:br3nda');

Find tweets to a user:

  $results = $twitter->search('to:serenecloud');

Find tweets referencing a user:

  $results = $twitter->search('@br3ndabot');

Find tweets containing a hashtag:

  $results = $twitter->search('#perl');

Combine any of the operators together:

  $results = $twitter->search('solaris anger from:br3nda');

 

ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS

  The search method also supports the following optional URL parameters:
 

lang

Restricts tweets to the given language, given by an ISO 639-1 code.

  $results = $twitter->search('hello', {lang=>'en'});
  #search for hello in maori
  $results = $twitter->search('kiaora', {lang=>'mi'});

rpp

The number of tweets to return per page, up to a max of 100.

  $results = $twitter->search('love', {rpp=>'10'});

page

The page number to return, up to a max of roughly 1500 results (based on rpp * page)

  #get page 3
  $results = $twitter->search('love', {page=>'3'});

since_id

Returns tweets with status ids greater than the given id.

  $results = $twitter->search('love', {since_id=>'1021356410'});

geocode

returns tweets by users located within a given radius of the given latitude/longitude, where the user's location is taken from their Twitter profile. The parameter value is specified by "latitide,longitude,radius", where radius units must be specified as either "mi" (miles) or "km" (kilometers).

 $results = $twitter->search('coffee', {geocode=> '40.757929,-73.985506,25km'});

Note that you cannot use the near operator via the API to geocode arbitrary locations; however you can use this geocode parameter to search near geocodes directly.

SEE ALSO

Net::Twitter

AUTHOR

Brenda Wallace <shiny@cpan.org>

cpanm Net::Twitter::Search

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Net::Twitter::Search