Twitter search (atom) API - exclude retweets

Question

I am using the Atom search API from Twitter. Now I present all (newest 5) tweets with a certain word. But unfortunately, many people retweet this one post and I get the same post 5 times.

Can I exclude retweets? If so, how?

I used now q=ConatiningWord -RT but is this reliable? – planIT Sep 13 '11 at 10:57 — planIT, Sep 13 '11 at 10:57
No, you might want to look in to regex. – Mob Sep 14 '11 at 01:05 — Mob, Sep 14 '11 at 01:05

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '11 at 06:28

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I've been successfully excluding retweets by adding +exclude:retweets at the end of my search query.

answered Oct 16 '11 at 06:28

peterkuterna

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This seems to have the same effect as "-rt". I tried a few search strings containing **RT** and with **+exclude:retweets** they never return anything. – Carcamano Apr 02 '12 at 23:53

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '11 at 09:53

I've done that and I'll share how you accomplish this. This would be your search query:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&rpp=100&q=[yourpost-value]-filter:retweets

This will exclude the retweets 100% and it worked for me :). If you have a problem with this, here is the alternate way:

Concatenate -filter:retweets within the function you are calling, here is an example:

if(isset($_POST['q'])){
  $q = $_POST['q']."-filter:retweets";
}

Now you just need to execute you search query:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&rpp=100&q=[post-value]

I hope this helps, have fun with programming :)

Twitter search (atom) API - exclude retweets

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