Gets a single post.
API type slug: post
Example usage: api/v1/post.php?type=post&post_id=12345
post_id
The ID of the post to retrieve.
network
The network to use in the call. Defaults to ‘twitter’.
include_entities
Whether or not to include Tweet Entities in the output. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.
include_replies
Whether or not to include replies to this post in the output. This argument is recursive and will retrieve replies to replies also. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.
trim_user
If set to true, this flag strips the user part of the output to just the user’s ID and nothing else. Defaults to false. This argument can be set to true by making it equal to either 1, t or true.
api/v1/post.php?post_id=18152896965124096 (the API type defaults to post):
{
"id":18152896965124096,
"source":"web",
"location":"Wales, UK",
"place":null,
"geo":null,
"in_reply_to_user_id":20636385,
"is_reply_by_friend":false,
"in_reply_to_post_id":17764087211491328,
"in_rt_of_user_id":null,
"reply_retweet_distance":0,
"is_retweet_by_friend":false,
"favorited":false,
"all_retweets":0,
"text":"@Stellar190 Application in astronomy, you say? Do you have any examples? :) (I don't doubt it, I'm just curious)",
"created_at":"Fri Dec 24 03:56:02 +0000 2010",
"annotations":null,
"truncated":false,
"protected":false,
"thinkup":{
"retweet_count_cache":0,
"reply_count_cache":2,
"old_retweet_count_cache":0,
"is_geo_encoded":0
},
"user":{
"id":69410725,
"location":"Wales, UK",
"description":"20 years old. Born and raised in Wales, UK. Programmer, British Mensa member, grapefruit, terrible at writing tag lines.",
"url":"http://lbak.co.uk",
"friend_count":234,
"followers_count":103,
"profile_image_url":"http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1140823002/28567_10150158194220371_544780370_11863380_6914499_n_normal.jpg",
"name":"Sam Rose",
"screen_name":"samwhoo",
"statuses_count":921,
"created_at":"Thu Aug 27 21:32:42 +0100 2009",
"utc_offset":3600,
"avg_tweets_per_day":1.53,
"last_updated":"2011-04-22 13:00:10",
"thinkup":{
"last_post":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
"last_post_id":0,
"found_in":"Owner Status"
}
}
}