Add way for bot to search through twitter

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Add way for bot to search through twitter #72

Open baconbm opened 5 years ago

baconbm commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The bot must be able to search through twitter when looking for a link to a tweet.

Describe the solution you'd like Utilize the tweepy api to create a function that searches twitter.

baconbm commented 5 years ago

As discussed offline, the tweepy api uses the standard twitter search API, which is free to use. However, this version of the search API only searches through a subset of the last 7 days of tweets. Higher tiers of the search API are far too expensive for us to use.

Moving to icebox.