Support retrieving 280 character tweets

[atoponce]

After Twitter has increased the limit to 280 characters, returned timeline tweets longer than 140 characters are truncated to a t.co link.

$ t timeline -cl realdonaldtrump
ID,Posted at,Screen name,Text
946731576687235072,2017-12-29 13:16:11 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL a… https://t.co/sjkgrE1kQe"
946728546633953285,2017-12-29 13:04:09 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and ot… https://t.co/fHKlK5bmUe"
946725057384108033,2017-12-29 12:50:17 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @charliekirk11: Incredible video: @CBS does a special on the GOP tax plan 

The result?

Every middle class family they sat down wi… https://t.co/JoCa98z3sR"
946724984218669056,2017-12-29 12:50:00 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @charliekirk11: ISIS getting slaughtered: 

Square miles liberated from ISIS
Trump: 26,000 --  Obama: 13,200

Total Square miles he… https://t.co/MUaADz28Ph"
946724719956578304,2017-12-29 12:48:57 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @FoxBusiness: .@charliekirk11: ""What this president has done is truly historic, and if a Democrat president achieved 1/10th of wh… https://t.co/2SkvUlQiE5"
946724543774765056,2017-12-29 12:48:15 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @charliekirk11: 3 big wins in 2017 you won't hear:

Trump confirmed the most circuit court judges ever in a President's 1st year (a… https://t.co/JLecJVYFyR"                                                                                                                                                                        
946724075157651457,2017-12-29 12:46:23 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating… https://t.co/u3cMWTck6M"                                                                      
946531657229701120,2017-12-29 00:01:47 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old G… https://t.co/tCjF8xdXep"                                                                      
946519720450252800,2017-12-28 23:14:21 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"Together, we are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/OeyTdFyl1Q https://t.co/wdLQkfdy4m"                                                                                                                      
946505517417095168,2017-12-28 22:17:55 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @realDonaldTrump: “Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump”                                                                                                                                     
https://t.co/70iPHy2Yqn"
946505439939911685,2017-12-28 22:17:36 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @DanScavino: Congratulations to the 2017 @PinstripeBowl (Yankee Stadium) Champions, Iowa @HawkeyeFootball! https://t.co/NlaWU6bKmH"                                                                             
946505312164630530,2017-12-28 22:17:06 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"RT @EricTrump: #ThrowbackThursdays                                                                                                                                                                                 
@realDonaldTrump 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/Z44IObGZ7V"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
946505155809247232,2017-12-28 22:16:29 +0000,realDonaldTrump,RT @IvankaTrump: “The Trump economy is booming.” One thing @realDonaldTrump “has done that has received little attention despite arg… https://t.co/W0xddNj2Li                                                       
946460939578167296,2017-12-28 19:20:47 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"I've been saying it for a long, long time. #NoKo https://t.co/LQl7tGhMdO"                                                                                                                                          
946416486054285314,2017-12-28 16:24:08 +0000,realDonaldTrump,Caught RED HANDED - very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a frie… https://t.co/aIa4CFXNoA                                                                        
946415026402988033,2017-12-28 16:18:20 +0000,realDonaldTrump,Retail sales are at record numbers. We’ve got the economy going better than anyone ever dreamt - and you haven’t seen anything yet!                                                                                 
946401576381505536,2017-12-28 15:24:53 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit th… https://t.co/Sx6AmzfKRp"                                                                      
946210723528572930,2017-12-28 02:46:30 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"“Arrests of MS-13 Members, Associates Up 83% Under Trump”                                                                                                                                                          
https://t.co/70iPHy2Yqn"
946201376652169220,2017-12-28 02:09:22 +0000,realDonaldTrump,"“On 1/20 - the day Trump was inaugurated - an estimated 35,000 ISIS fighters held approx 17,500 square miles of ter… https://t.co/xnR1mXhmr3"                                                                      
946156544927977477,2017-12-27 23:11:13 +0000,realDonaldTrump,Just left West Palm Beach Fire & Rescue #2. Met with great men and women as representatives of those who do so much… https://t.co/UK0Q7BUKbj                                                                        

Is this an API limitation, or is there something in the API that allows you to pull the text of the entire tweet without a t.co link?

[jabrah29]

I would like to work on this. Sidenote..this is my first open source contribution

[jabrah29]

After looking into this, it seems the twitter gem does not support getting the full text. sferik/twitter-ruby#880

[fredzannarbor]

Fixing this would be a great help.

[jabrah29]

do you mean using an alternative to the twitter gem since it doesn't support it?

[fredzannarbor]

I don't know. Who owns the twitter gem? @sferik ? We need to get the project moving forward again.

[jm3]

It's an API change on Twitter's side, documented in detail here.

FYI, you can easily fetch full 280 character statuses today using the twitter gem by passing extended mode via the opts hash:

t = TwitterClient.status('952834173676371968', tweet_mode: 'extended')

...

[1] pry > long_tweet = t.to_hash.slice(:full_text, :truncated)
=> {:truncated=>false, :full_text=>
    "i just spent the better part of 2 hours thinking about Dave Navarro being 
     KFC's 'Dark Colonel', where KFC begins accepting crypto during his reign, 
     as well as the introduction of a new 'Navarro Sauce' for the chicken""
   }
[2] pry > long_tweet[:full_text].size
   => 217

[for-coursera]

Any news here?