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jkakavas / creepy

A geolocation OSINT tool. Offers geolocation information gathering through social networking platforms.
http://www.geocreepy.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Not retrieving Tweets #44

Open scba21 opened 8 years ago

scba21 commented 8 years ago

I'm attempting a location based project. Creepy is not retrieving tweets, even though I know there are plenty in the area I'm searching (I have a geo coded search running in Tweetdeck to confirm). I can see a difference in the syntax between what creepy is using and what I used in native Twitter. Not sure if that's making a difference or not. This is what I get in creepy:

DEBUG:2016-05-02 13:22:24,851 In twitter.py:338: Attempting to retrieve tweets around 43.5611130791,-96.7501544952,10m

In native twitter, the proximity has to state either mi (for miles) or (km) for kilometers. Creepy is just using m (or appears to be).

jkakavas commented 8 years ago

As you can see in https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy/blob/master/creepy/plugins/twitter/twitter.py#L336 , if the user sets the radius to less than 1000m, cree.py changes that to 1km as this is the smallest radius that the twitter API will accept ( https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/search/tweets )

When it comes to your specific search, if you can share the geocode, i can troubleshoot more and get back to you