Twitter API: Check if a tweet is a retweet

Question

I have found this question. However I think this has changed on API version 1.1.

If I use the search/tweets method, how can I see if the tweet is a RT?

Answer 1

The retweeted_status property will exist if the received tweet was retweeted, else you will get the AttributeError error. In the case, you want to get rid of retweeted tweets:

def on_status(self, status):
    try:
        print "Retweeted ************* \n" + str(status.retweeted_status)
        return 
    except AttributeError:
        print "there is no attribut with name retweeted_status"

Answer 2

As everyone else has mentioned, you can check to see if the retweeted_status property exists in the response subfield for that Tweet.

However, per the current version of the API, every Tweet object has the field retweeted that stores a boolean value (True or False) that will tell you if a Tweet has been retweeted.

Answer 3

By simply checking the property name

"retweeted_status"

if you does not find then it's not RT.

Answer 4

Make sure your "re-tweet" is not actually a quote of an another tweet. In this case, I had to use the quoted_status field to get the original tweet, rather than the retweeted_status one.

Answer 5

Just to add a bit more. (using twitter gem (ruby language))

You can check if its a retweet by checking the tweet and then getting what you need from the retweeted_status hash

t = client.status(#########) #function that obtains tweet based on ID where # = tweet ID
puts t.retweeted_status? # returns true or false
t.retweeted_status # returns the actual hash for that

Answer 6

If it's a retweet, the tweet will contain a property named retweeted_status. To be complete, retweeted_status will not appear if the tweet is not a retweet. More info at: Tweets.