get-statuses-home_timeline

GET statuses/home_timeline

Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets and Retweets posted by the authenticating user and the users they follow. The home timeline is central to how most users interact with the Twitter service.

Up to 800 Tweets are obtainable on the home timeline. It is more volatile for users that follow many users or follow users who Tweet frequently.

See Working with Timelines for instructions on traversing timelines efficiently.

Resource URL¶

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json

Resource Information¶

Response formats	JSON
Requires authentication?	Yes (user context only)
Rate limited?	Yes
Requests / 15-min window (user auth)	15
Supports Edit Tweets feature?	Yes

Parameters¶

Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Example
count	optional	Specifies the number of records to retrieve. Must be less than or equal to 200. Defaults to 20. The value of count is best thought of as a limit to the number of tweets to return because suspended or deleted content is removed after the count has been applied.		5
since_id	optional	Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID. There are limits to the number of Tweets which can be accessed through the API. If the limit of Tweets has occured since the since_id, the since_id will be forced to the oldest ID available.		12345
max_id	optional	Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID.		54321
trim_user	optional	When set to either true , t or 1 , each Tweet returned in a timeline will include a user object including only the status authors numerical ID. Omit this parameter to receive the complete user object.		true
exclude_replies	optional	This parameter will prevent replies from appearing in the returned timeline. Using exclude_replies with the count parameter will mean you will receive up-to count Tweets — this is because the count parameter retrieves that many Tweets before filtering out retweets and replies.		true
include_entities	optional	The entities node will not be included when set to false.		false
include_ext_edit_control	optional	Must be set to true in order to return edited Tweet metadata as part of the Tweet object. `include_ext_edit_control=true` Note that historical Tweets may not contain edited Tweet metadata. To learn more about how edited Tweets are supported, see the Edit Tweets fundamentals page.		true

Example Request¶

GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json

Example Response¶

{
  "created_at": "Wed Oct 10 20:19:24 +0000 2018",
  "id": 1050118621198921728,
  "id_str": "1050118621198921728",
  "text": "To make room for more expression, we will now count all emojis as equal—including those with gender‍‍‍ and skin t… https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
  "truncated": true,
  "entities": {
    "hashtags": [],
    "symbols": [],
    "user_mentions": [],
    "urls": [
      {
        "url": "https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
        "expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050118621198921728",
        "display_url": "twitter.com/i/web/status/1…",
        "indices": [
          117,
          140
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow">Twitter Web Client</a>",
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 6253282,
    "id_str": "6253282",
    "name": "Twitter API",
    "screen_name": "TwitterAPI",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "description": "The Real Twitter API. Tweets about API changes, service issues and our Developer Platform. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
    "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
    "entities": {
      "url": {
        "urls": [
          {
            "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
            "expanded_url": "https://developer.twitter.com",
            "display_url": "developer.twitter.com",
            "indices": [
              0,
              23
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "description": {
        "urls": []
      }
    },
    "protected": false,
    "followers_count": 6128663,
    "friends_count": 12,
    "listed_count": 12900,
    "created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
    "favourites_count": 32,
    "utc_offset": null,
    "time_zone": null,
    "geo_enabled": null,
    "verified": true,
    "statuses_count": 3659,
    "lang": "null",
    "contributors_enabled": null,
    "is_translator": null,
    "is_translation_enabled": null,
    "profile_background_color": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url_https": "null",
    "profile_background_tile": nulll,
    "profile_image_url": "null",
    "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/942858479592554497/BbazLO9L_normal.jpg",
    "profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/6253282/1497491515",
    "profile_link_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_border_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "null",
    "profile_text_color": "null",
    "profile_use_background_image": null,
    "has_extended_profile": null,
    "default_profile": false,
    "default_profile_image": false,
    "following": nul,
    "follow_request_sent": null,
    "notifications": null,
    "translator_type": "null"
  },
  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": null,
  "contributors": null,
  "is_quote_status": false,
  "retweet_count": 161,
  "favorite_count": 296,
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "possibly_sensitive": false,
  "possibly_sensitive_appealable": false,
  "lang": "en"
}