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How to stream a specific user_id by tweepy?

I'm trying to reach out an event to recognize whenever specific user tweets , so im using stream.filter in tweepy , just like
class IDPrinter(tweepy.StreamingClient):
def on_tweet(self, tweet):
print(tweet)
printer = IDPrinter("bearer")
printer.sample(expansions=['author_id'],user_fields=['1234']) #consider 1234 user_id to follow
but Stream encountered HTTP error: 400 ,what am i missing? im having api v2 and allowing OAuth v2 as well

To be able to filter streaming data you need to give rules initially. So if you want to stream tweets of user with id 1234 you need give a rule for that, then when you start streaming, tweets that satisfy your rule will be retrieved.
For more information about adding rules on tweepy : StreamRule
For more about Twitter Api v2 Filtered Stream : How to build a rule

Tweepy, Twitter Rest API user_timeline doesn't return any tweet

I am using tweepy for communicating with the twitter API using python.
I am trying to get a users latest tweet using api.user_timeline(id = user_id, exclude_replies=True, count = 1)[0]
But sometimes this returns 0 tweets and sometimes it works thats why I don't know what could be the problem.
Why does this happen?

Can we get 100 tweets from twitter in less than 1 minute using any API / Library?

I am using the twitter api but its taking about 15 minutes to fetch about 180 tweets about the specified # tag. Is there any way that we boost the tweets number. i want to get about 150 tweets in less than a minute.

You might use tweepy for the library side of things.
Use the official search API for getting the tweets:
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23abcd
Where the query parameter can be a string or a hashtag. (%23 being the url encoded #)
More information is available here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html
Note : Search API is OAauth authenticated, so you'll need to include your access tokens to the API call.

Tweepy mentions_timeline returns an empty list

I just started to make a Twitter Api. Normally I don't have a Twitter account, for this api I created one. I Tweeted 4 times, including some mentions. But when I use mentions_timeline like this;
my_mentions = api.mentions_timeline()
#print(my_mentions)
#output: []
After then I do a for loop on my_mentions with parameters text, screen_name but nothing returned.
What I'm doing wrong here? Why it's an empty list since I mentioned some people in the tweets + how can I search mentions for another user? Is there a parameter in mentions_timeline() object like screen_name or id ?

Try using the new Cursor Object as follows:
api = tweepy.API(auth)
for mentions in tweepy.Cursor(api.mentions_timeline).items():
# process mentions here
print mentions.text
as per Twitters documentation here
Returns the 20 most recent mentions (tweets containing a users’s
#screen_name) for the authenticating user.
so you cannot check other users mentions using this method. To achieve this, you will have to uses twitters search api. for tweepy's documentation check here

import tweepy
api = tweepy.API(auth)
api.mentions_timeline()

Try going to your profile using the same of which you're using the API and see whether the mentions exists in your profile.
and try mentioning the twitter account from different account which you trying from.
This might be the case where twitter had limited your activities and replies/tweets are not visible of that account.

Twitter search API: search by tweet id

I'd like send query to twitter search API using the tweet id but it seems you cannot search a tweet by having its id (maybe because you don't need to search it if you already have the id). For example imagine we have a tweet https://twitter.com/great_watches/status/643389532105256961 and we want to send 643389532105256961 to the search API to see if the tweet is available on the search api or not.
I need it because I just want to compare twitter search api with twitter streaming api.
I have a python script which is listening to the stream for some keywords and whenever a tweet is comming I like to search it on twitter search api to see if it is available there also or not. meaningless huh?

You can't compare the the Search API to the Streaming API the way you're doing it due to the fact they're both retrieving different types of information.
From the Search API docs:
The Twitter Search API is part of Twitter’s v1.1 REST API. It allows
queries against the indices of recent or popular Tweets and behaves
similarily to, but not exactly like the Search feature available in
Twitter mobile or web clients, such as Twitter.com search.
Before getting involved, it’s important to know that the Search API is
focused on relevance and not completeness. This means that some Tweets
and users may be missing from search results. If you want to match for
completeness you should consider using a Streaming API instead.
Here's to explain the scenario based on the information you've given.
You're streaming the word python and you find a match.
You instantly take that match and look for it on search API
The issue with that is by the time you're going from Streaming API (which is in real time) and you're looking to find the same one on the search API you'll get in conflict where more relevant tweets and popular one that will supersede it.
You'll need to redefine the query sent to the search API to include that exact same one (i.e. include more than python as you have done with the Streaming API).

You can get it using the tweepy api. Get the consumer key, secret and access key, secret from https://apps.twitter.com/ .Then run the following:
consumer_key = 'XXXX'
consumer_secret = 'XXXX'
access_key = 'XXXX-XXXX'
access_secret = 'XXXX'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweet = api.statuses_lookup(['643389532105256961'])
a1[0].text # Prints the message
More info here http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/api.html#API.statuses_lookup