Get Tweet timelines
API Reference contents
GET statuses/home_timeline¶
Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets and Retweets posted by the authenticating user and the users they follow. The home timeline is central to how most users interact with the Twitter service.
Up to 800 Tweets are obtainable on the home timeline. It is more volatile for users that follow many users or follow users who Tweet frequently.
See Working with Timelines for instructions on traversing timelines efficiently.
Resource URL¶
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json
Resource Information¶
| Response formats | JSON |
| Requires authentication? | Yes (user context only) |
| Rate limited? | Yes |
| Requests / 15-min window (user auth) | 15 |
Parameters¶
| Name | Required | Description | Default Value | Example |
| count | optional | Specifies the number of records to retrieve. Must be less than or equal to 200. Defaults to 20. The value of count is best thought of as a limit to the number of tweets to return because suspended or deleted content is removed after the count has been applied. | 5 | |
| since_id | optional | Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID. There are limits to the number of Tweets which can be accessed through the API. If the limit of Tweets has occured since the since_id, the since_id will be forced to the oldest ID available. | 12345 | |
| max_id | optional | Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID. | 54321 | |
| trim_user | optional | When set to either true , t or 1 , each Tweet returned in a timeline will include a user object including only the status authors numerical ID. Omit this parameter to receive the complete user object. | true | |
| exclude_replies | optional | This parameter will prevent replies from appearing in the returned timeline. Using exclude_replies with the count parameter will mean you will receive up-to count Tweets — this is because the count parameter retrieves that many Tweets before filtering out retweets and replies. | true | |
| include_entities | optional | The entities node will not be included when set to false. | false |
Example Request¶
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json
Example Response¶
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"created_at": "Tue Aug 28 21:16:23 +0000 2012",
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]
},
"text": "just another test",
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"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
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"place": null,
"source": "OAuth Dancer Reborn",
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"created_at": "Wed Mar 03 19:37:35 +0000 2010",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"follow_request_sent": false,
"id_str": "119476949",
"is_translator": false,
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
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"screen_name": "oauth_dancer"
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"created_at": "Tue Aug 28 21:08:15 +0000 2012",
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],
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},
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"name": "Othman Laraki",
"id_str": "20495814",
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],
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}
]
},
"text": "lecturing at the "analyzing big data with twitter" class at @cal with @othman http://t.co/bfj7zkDJ",
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"possibly_sensitive": false,
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"place": {
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"text": "You'd be right more often if you thought you were wrong.",
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