It's unknown whether a future incarnation of the Search API might allow for searching against a user's specific timeline of tweets -- whether protected or not. There is a definite future where authentication will be used with Search, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will offer scoping features for the authenticated user. Today the Search Index (for which the Search API is an interface) doesn't concern itself with tweets from protected accounts.
If you're interested in offering scoped search capabilities for a protected account user_timeline for the owner of that protected user, you can consume their user_timeline (currently limited to their 3200 most recent tweets) and offer your own search capabilities against that timeline. @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Damon Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the response, but didn't quite answer my question. I was > asking about indexing mainly and not specifically just the Search API. > > Twitter doesn't index any private feeds? > > If they aren't indexed then they will never be searchable... not just "not > searchable in the current version of the Search API (by users with access to > the private feed)." > > > > > > -- > damonp > > On Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Taylor Singletary wrote: > > Correct, the Search API's archive represents only publicly issued tweets. > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Damon Parker <[email protected]>wrote: > > So private feeds aren't indexed by Twitter at all and thus are never > searchable? > > -- > damonp > Sent with Sparrow <http://www.sparrowmailapp.com> > > On Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Rich wrote: > > You can't unless you have already cached their timeline by either > being someone following that user or you are authenticated as that > user. Even then you have to write the logic to search their timeline. > > On May 12, 3:09 am, jimmy6 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then how can i search private twit? > > On May 12, 2:04 am, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Jimmy, > > > The Search API only indexes public Tweets so it doesn't know about Tweets > from protected users. > > > Best, > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:29 AM, jimmy6 <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it is the case, how can i get/search private twit? > > > On May 10, 10:23 pm, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Search API will ignore any authentication that you send its way -- it > doesn't know anything about authentication. > > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:13 AM, jimmy6 <[email protected]> wrote: > > What will happen if i pass in authentication token in search api? Does > it return different result? Does it return only my twit and friend > twit? > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: > > https://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources:https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
