How does reply_to=123 work? about twitter-api-client HOT 3 CLOSED

I think someone else also had a similar issue. I'm going to be removing those keyword arguments for tweet() in the future to avoid confusion. I may also refactor these methods to make the API slightly more intuitive.

Basically, tweet() is only intended to accept a message and an optional media parameter. Kwargs aren't supposed to be used directly, only the methods reply(), quote(), and create_poll() are supposed to be using them. This is because all of these methods are calling the same endpoint that tweet() does, but with some extra parameters.

On the other hand retweet() and schedule_tweet() use entirely different endpoints, so they cannot simply call tweet() with extra params.

To answer your specific questions:

I just saw in your code that reply to is only available for scheduled tweets, right?

Nope, we can reply to a tweet simply using reply(). Scheduled tweets use a different endpoint, so I've currently created a separate method for them as you may have seen in the readme.

What am i doing wrong?

If you only care about replying to a tweet you can simply use the method reply()

account.reply(123456, 'my reply')

If you want to schedule a reply, a different method is used:

account.schedule_tweet('my scheduled reply', '2023-04-20 19:11', reply_to=123456)

## or with a unix timestamp
# account.schedule_tweet('my scheduled reply', 1682043060, reply_to=123456)

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I just saw in your code that reply to is only available for sceduled tweets, right?

As you know your code muuuuch better, would a change here be possible?

I don't want to be demanding and would use a workaround if you don't want/can change this atm..

Regards :)

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i was dumb enough to not see the reply function...

Thanks a lot for clarification!

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