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Playbook: Mining Data with the Twitter API

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Overview

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In this course, you will learn how to connect to the Twitter API and extract data using the Standard Search API.

With 330 million monthly active users sending 500 million Tweets per day, Twitter is one of the most comprehensive sources of live conversation on the planet. In this course, Playbook: Mining Data with the Twitter API, you'll learn how to connect to the Twitter API and extract data using the Standard Search API. You'll see how this API can be used to discover references to products, brands, or services on the social media platform. First, you'll explore how to write code that will let you connect to the Twitter API. Next, you'll discover how to create reusable code that integrates with the Twitter Standard Search API. Finally, you'll be learning how to surface further insights such as Hashtags, URLs, and User Mentions. By the end of this course, you’ll understand the authentication methods that Twitter support, the ability to write reusable and extendable code that can be used in other software projects.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 2mins
  • Making Your First Request to the Twitter API 22mins
  • Searching for Tweets That Reference a Product, Brand, or Service with Standard Search API 10mins
  • Exploring the Standard Search API Entities Object 12mins

Taught by

Jamie Maguire

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