offline-twitter/pkg/scraper/search.go

package scraper

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
)

func TimestampToDateString(timestamp int) string {
	panic("???") // TODO
}

/**
 * TODO: Search modes:
 * - regular ("top")
 * - latest / "live"
 * - search for users
 * - photos
 * - videos
 */
func Search(query string, min_results int) (trove TweetTrove, err error) {
	tweet_response, err := the_api.Search(query, "")
	if err != nil {
		return
	}

	if len(tweet_response.GlobalObjects.Tweets) < min_results && tweet_response.GetCursor() != "" {
		err = the_api.GetMoreTweetsFromSearch(query, &tweet_response, min_results)
		if errors.Is(err, END_OF_FEED) {
			println("End of feed!")
		} else if err != nil {
			return
		}
	}

	trove, err = tweet_response.ToTweetTrove()
	if err != nil {
		err = fmt.Errorf("Error parsing the tweet trove for search query %q:\n  %w", query, err)
		return
	}

	// Filling tombstones and tombstoned users is probably not necessary here, but we still
	// need to fetch Spaces
	err = trove.PostProcess()
	return
}