Twitter query using C++

Weeekend project

usage

get a developer account from Twitter

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tutorials/step-by-step-guide-to-making-your-first-request-to-the-twitter-api-v2

replace the string "my_secret_token" in the source code for the BEARER_TOKEN string obtained from Twitter

const std::string BEARER_TOKEN("my_secret_token");

optional: replace the input query in the source code with a supplied query as in

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/search/integrate/build-a-query

from:watch_econ -is:retweet

build

Build on a terminal with

cmake -S . -B build
cd build
cmake --build . --parallel 9 

dependencies

Cmake OpenSSL asio nlohmann/json

input encoded

from%3Awatch_econ%20-is%3Aretweet

HTTP string

GET https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets/search/recent?query=from%3Awatch_econ%20-is%3Aretweet HTTP/1.1
Host: api.twitter.com
Authorization: Bearer MY_BEARER_STRING
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close

header response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

JSON response

{"data":[{"id":"1547434606059819009","text":"@aaronjmate @jaketapper Tapper is not the curious kind of journalist https://t.co/DPALnm8UV8"}],"meta":{"newest_id":"1547434606059819009","oldest_id":"1547434606059819009","result_count":1}}
id: 1547434606059819009
text: @aaronjmate @jaketapper Tapper is not the curious kind of journalist https://t.co/DPALnm8UV8