Can't exclude replies in search. (`replies: false` ignored?)

[dschwertfeger]

v3.0.2

rettiwt.tweet
  .search({
    fromUsers: [<username>],
    replies: false,
  })
  .then((data) => {
    ...
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    ...
  });

data still contains replies.

How can I exclude replies from search?

[Rishikant181]

Oops, it's an error on my part (sorry :P). Earlier, the replies: false used to work (that was a long time ago). At some point, twitter made it such that replies are always returned, and the only thing you can do is exclude original tweets from the results, but the replies will be returned regardless. I failed to reflect those changes in the documentation as well as parameter naming :P

Still, I'll be cross checking it in the morning.

[dschwertfeger]

Appreciate your quick reply!

Curious… Are you saying 𝕏's API doesn't offer to exclude replies at all?

I've been using the on-site search with puppeteer and it allows you to exclude:replies. So a query like from:<username> exclude:replies since:2024-06-01 turns into:

https://x.com/search?q=from%3A<username>%20exclude%3Areplies%20since%3A2024-06-01&src=typed_query&f=live

Decoded:

https://x.com/search?q=from:<username> exclude:replies since:2024-06-01&src=typed_query&f=live

…and doesn't return replies.

I didn't yet fully drill down into how you construct the requests. But do you think it might be possible to exclude replies using the exclude parameter?

[Rishikant181]

Thanks for the info. I didn't know about the exclude parameter while reverse engineering the Twitter Web App, I'll check it now and if it works, I'll create a patch.

[Rishikant181]

Okay so the already implemented could should have worked. I say "should have" because I'm dumb and my code doesn't include the -filter:replies in the final query string.

Fixing it now. Expect patch soon.

[Rishikant181]

This has been fixed in v3.0.3. Please update to see changes and let me know if it works as expected.

[dschwertfeger]

Fantastic! Works now.

Thanks for the quick fix! Glad it was a rather simple one. :)