Twitter PHP API - 按标签搜索无效

Question

I need to get a lot of tweets with Twitter PHP API but when i make request it returns that no tweets found. When i looking for tweets but hashtag on site i see a lot of them.

$settings = array(
                'oauth_access_token' => "secret",
                'oauth_access_token_secret' => "secret",
                'consumer_key' => "secret",
                'consumer_secret' => "secret"
            );
            $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json';
            $getField = '?q=#ifiliveresult_type=recent';
            $requestMethod = 'GET';

            Yii::import('application.helpers.TwitterAPIExchange');
            $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
            echo $twitter->setGetfield($getField)
                ->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
                ->performRequest();

it returns me

completed_in: 0.005
count: 15
max_id: 527874293112512500
max_id_str: "527874293112512512"
query: "%23ifilive"
refresh_url: "?since_id=527874293112512512&q=%23ifilive&result_type=recent&include_entities=1"
since_id: 0
since_id_str: "0"

and empty statuses array.

Maybe twitter have some restrictions of something?

Answer 1

I've had the same issue in the past. From the Twitter dev site:

Please note that Twitter’s search service and, by extension, the Search API is not meant to be an exhaustive source of Tweets. Not all Tweets will be indexed or made available via the search interface.

Some older hashtags simply won't be returned in the search results.

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