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Hydrating community notes? #169

Closed tsor13 closed 10 months ago

tsor13 commented 10 months ago

I'd like to hydrate community notes based on noteId, just like you can hydrate tweets with their tweetId. However, I'm unable to find a way to do this with the twitter API, and it looks like the actual content of the community note is not present in the released data.

How can I get the body of the actual community note?

Here is the X/Twitter API v2 endpoint for a tweet: https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/{tweetId}. However, it does not work when I put in a noteId.

Additionally, I see that the url twitter.com/i/birdwatch/n/{nodeId} goes to the community note, but does not seem (as far as I'm aware) to be accessible to the API.

jbaxter commented 10 months ago

Thanks for using the data! Currently the best way to get the body of Community Notes is in the summary field in the downloadable TSV https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/download-data. There is no regular API support currently.

tsor13 commented 10 months ago

@jbaxter thank you for the reply! However, it looks like the summary is not even a summary of the community note, but rather a response to the prompt “Please explain the evidence behind your choices, to help others who see this tweet understand why it is not misleading” (https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/under-the-hood/download-data).

Would it be possible to either a) add the body of the community notes to the data to download or b) add a way to hydrate it using the X/Twitter API? Without either, it's impossible to do many analyses about the bodies of the community notes that are accepted over the ones that are rejected