Searching for tweets by date using Twitterapiexchange - php

Question

I am attempting to search tweets within a given date range, using the twitterapiexchange wrapper.
Here is my code
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "xx",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "xx",
'consumer_key' => "xx",
'consumer_secret' => "xx"
);
$url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json";
$requestMethod = "GET"
$getfield = "?q=from:manutd&until:2018-01-20&since:2018-01-01";
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$string = json_decode($twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest(),$assoc = TRUE);
if(array_key_exists("errors", $string)) {echo "<h3>Sorry, there was a problem.</h3>
<p>Twitter returned the following error message:</p><p><em>".$string[errors][0]
["message"]."</em></p>";exit();}
foreach($string as $items)
{
echo "Time and Date of Tweet: ".$items['created_at']."<br />";
echo "Tweet: ". $items['full_text']."<br />";
echo "Tweeted by: ". $items['user']['name']."<br />";
echo "Screen name: ". $items['user']['screen_name']."<br />";
echo "Followers: ". $items['user']['followers_count']."<br />";
echo "Friends: ". $items['user']['friends_count']."<br />";
echo "Listed: ". $items['user']['listed_count']."<br /><hr />";
}
This returns the latest tweets from the specified user, the date field appears to be ignored.
Is it possible to search by date using the API ?

Answer 1

The search API supports this, but you have to assemble your query like so:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3Atwitterdev&result_type=mixed&count=2
Refer: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets
The query string above is the urlencoded form of:
so you will pass like
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%3Afrom:manutd&until:2018-01-20&since:2018-01-01
The list of search operators can be found here.