Timeline on twarc-archive.py

Hi,

Is it possible to use the timeline functionality on twarc-archive.py? It would seem that twarc-archive only uses GET search/tweets and not GET statuses/user_timeline. Is that correct? My use case requires to use the timeline because of the bigger requests calls per window, and I have to do it through an extended period of time, so mining only the newer tweets automatically, is exactly what I’m looking for.

Because, as far as I know, if I do:

twarc timeline slarrain > slarrain.jsonl

2 days in a row, it just overwrites the slarrain.jsonl file. And If I, instead, give it a new name, like slarrain2.jsonl, It will re-mine the tweets that are already on the old file. So it would seem that what I’m looking for is exactly the functionality that twarc-archive provides, but not for search (which I’m currently using) but for timelines.

Is that possible?

In any case, thank you so much for twarc. Is beyond awesome.

[edsu]

You’re welcome! Thanks for the kind words, they make everything worthwhile.

[edsu]

Thank you @jason-lange – it’s always great to hear people find it useful, even if it’s a bit difficult at first. Thanks also for the pointer to @alblaine’s tutorial, it had slipped my radar and points to a possible way to improve the twarc documentation.