Twitter

Availability: Airbyte Cloud: ✅, Airbyte OSS: ✅
Support Level: Community
Latest Version: 0.1.2
Definition Id: d7fd4f40-5e5a-4b8b-918f-a73077f8c131

This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the Twitter source connector.

Prerequisites

To set up the Twitter source connector, you'll need the App only Bearer Token.

Set up the Twitter connector in Airbyte

1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account or navigate to the Airbyte Open Source dashboard.
2. Click Sources and then click + New source.
3. On the Set up the source page, select Twitter from the Source type dropdown.
4. Enter the name for the Twitter connector.
5. For Access Token, enter the App only Bearer Token.
6. For Search Query, enter the query for matching Tweets. You can learn how to build this query by reading build a query guide.
7. For Start Date (Optional), enter the date in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ format. The start date for retrieving tweets cannot be more than 7 days in the past.
8. For End Date (Optional), enter the date in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ format. The end date for retrieving tweets must be a minimum of 10 seconds prior to the request time.
9. Click Set up source.

Supported sync modes

The Twitter source connector supports the following sync modes:

• Full Refresh - Overwrite
• Full Refresh - Append
• Incremental - Append

Supported Streams

• Tweets

Performance considerations

Rate limiting is mentioned in the API documentation

Changelog

Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
0.1.2	2023-03-06	23749	Spec and docs are improved for beta certification
0.1.1	2023-03-03	23661	Incremental added for the "tweets" stream
0.1.0	2022-11-01	18883	🎉 New Source: Twitter