How to search twitter using advanced options

Question

http://twitter.com/search-advanced

I would like to do searches that mimic the aforementioned screen (for example, how to find all tweets that match “none of the words”, criteria, or just #hashtags criteria). Is it possible to mix-n- map some of these fields using twitter4j, at the moment I can only perform simple searches using keywords.

Answer 1

If you fill out some advanced search page and actually do a search, it will fill the search box with the constructed query string. For example, if I configured it as follows:

• All these words: word1 word2
• Any of these words: word3 word4
• None of these words: word5
• From these accounts: user1 user2
• Mentioned these accounts: user3

"word1 word2 word3 OR word4 -word5 from: user1 OR from: user2 @ user3"

Then you simply paste this line into your generated query.

Query query = new Query("word1 word2 word3 OR word4 -word5 from:user1 OR from:user2 @user3");