Searching Twitter

Perform a search.

Entity: Search

Type: SearchType.Search (optional)

Parameters/Filters:

Name	Purpose	Type	Required
Count	Number of tweets to retrieve for each page. Max is 100.	int	no
GeoCode	Tweets within the Radius from a specified Latitude and Longitude. Specify as “latitude,longitude,radius”.	string	no
IncludeEntities	Omits entities when set to false. Default is true.	bool	no
Lang	Language to return tweets in as defined by [ISO-639-1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1].	string	no
Locale	Language used in query. ja is currently the only supported language other than en. Defaults to en.	string	no
MaxID	Return tweets prior to or equal to this ID.	ulong	no
Query	Search query.	string	yes
ResultType	Specify whether tweets should be Popular, Recent, or Mixed; defaults to recent.	ResultType	no
SearchLanguage	Language of tweets.	int	no
SinceID	Return tweets later than this ID.	ulong	no
Type	Search type.	string	no
Until	Tweets up to this date, YYYY-MM-DD.	string	no

Note: Can contain search operators defined at [Twitter Search API docs](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search].

v3.0+ Example:

            string searchTerm = "\"LINQ to Twitter\" OR Linq2Twitter OR LinqToTwitter OR JoeMayo";
            //searchTerm = "кот (";

            Search searchResponse =
                await
                (from search in twitterCtx.Search
                 where search.Type == SearchType.Search &&
                       search.Query == searchTerm &&
                       search.IncludeEntities == true &&
                       search.TweetMode == TweetMode.Extended
                 select search)
                .SingleOrDefaultAsync();

            if (searchResponse?.Statuses != null)
                searchResponse.Statuses.ForEach(tweet =>
                    Console.WriteLine(
                        "\n  User: {0} ({1})\n  Tweet: {2}", 
                        tweet.User.ScreenNameResponse,
                        tweet.User.UserIDResponse,
                        tweet.Text ?? tweet.FullText));
            else
                Console.WriteLine("No entries found.");

Paging Demo:

            const int MaxSearchEntriesToReturn = 10;
            const int MaxTotalResults = 100;

            string searchTerm = "twitter";

            // oldest id you already have for this search term
            ulong sinceID = 1;

            // used after the first query to track current session
            ulong maxID; 

            var combinedSearchResults = new List<Status>();

            List<Status> searchResponse =
                await
                (from search in twitterCtx.Search
                 where search.Type == SearchType.Search &&
                       search.Query == searchTerm &&
                       search.Count == MaxSearchEntriesToReturn &&
                       search.SinceID == sinceID &&
                       search.TweetMode == TweetMode.Extended
                 select search.Statuses)
                .SingleOrDefaultAsync();

            if (searchResponse != null)
            {
                combinedSearchResults.AddRange(searchResponse);
                ulong previousMaxID = ulong.MaxValue;
                do
                {
                    // one less than the newest id you've just queried
                    maxID = searchResponse.Min(status => status.StatusID) - 1;

                    Debug.Assert(maxID < previousMaxID);
                    previousMaxID = maxID;

                    searchResponse =
                        await
                        (from search in twitterCtx.Search
                         where search.Type == SearchType.Search &&
                               search.Query == searchTerm &&
                               search.Count == MaxSearchEntriesToReturn &&
                               search.MaxID == maxID &&
                               search.SinceID == sinceID &&
                               search.TweetMode == TweetMode.Extended
                         select search.Statuses)
                        .SingleOrDefaultAsync();

                    combinedSearchResults.AddRange(searchResponse);
                } while (searchResponse.Any() && combinedSearchResults.Count < MaxTotalResults);

                combinedSearchResults.ForEach(tweet =>
                    Console.WriteLine(
                        "\n  User: {0} ({1})\n  Tweet: {2}",
                        tweet.User.ScreenNameResponse,
                        tweet.User.UserIDResponse,
                        tweet.Text ?? tweet.FullText)); 
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("No entries found.");
            }

v2.1 Example:

            var srch =
                (from search in twitterCtx.Search
                 where search.Type == SearchType.Search &&
                       search.Query == "LINQ to Twitter" &&
                       search.Count == 7
                 select search)
                .SingleOrDefault();

            Console.WriteLine("\nQuery: {0}\n", srch.SearchMetaData.Query);
            srch.Statuses.ForEach(entry =>
                Console.WriteLine(
                    "ID: {0, -15}, Source: {1}\nContent: {2}\n",
                    entry.StatusID, entry.Source, entry.Text));

Twitter API: search/tweets