English only tweets

[stefano]

Hello just a couple of newbie questions.

I have been looking in the forum but have not find answers:

– is there a filter to collect only tweets in English (or other languages)?

– I set one of my sheet to collect tweets every hour, but I get this error “TypeError: Cannot call method “replace” of undefined. (line 318, file “Code”, project “TAGS”)” ..any idea how I can fix this?

Many thanks for the help

S.

[mhawksey]

Hi,

To add a language filter with your sheet open select Tools > Script editor. In the code you’ll see an example advanced search parameter declaration

//var advParams = {“geocode”: “40.714353,-74.005973,30mi”};

after this add a new line
var advParams = {“lang”: “en”};

Save the script and when it runs it should filter new results in English. Note however that this in not 100% accurate and last time a I looked based on the users preferred language setting for using twitter.com

Re: the error have you changed the name of the Readme/Settings sheet or in the period set in B13 not one of the following: default,-1 days,-2 days,-3 days,-4 days,-5 days,-6 days,-7 days

[stefano]

Cheers mhawksey

so when I paste the line in the script and save I get an error “Illegal character”. (sorry I am bit numb with coding).

As for the error, do you mean I should change B13 from default to one of the other values?

thanks

[mhawksey]

sorry the forum displays code wrong … this should be better

var advParams = {"lang": "en"};

if B13 is ‘default’ it must be something else. Have you changes any of the sheet names?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by mhawksey.

[stefano]

Cheers again 🙂

I get “Invalid Property ID” now.

* I changed the name of the sheet from the original one if that’s what you mean.
I now set from default to something else, I will see if it works

thanks

[mhawksey]

Renaming the sheets in the template will break the script 🙂

[stefano]

OK I see (sorry I may look like a bit confused), I did not rename the internal sheets, just the main name of TAGS (as it was suggested when I downloaded it).

I changed default to another value, but still get the alert that the script isn’t working

[mhawksey]

not sure what’s wrong – feel free to share with m.hawksey [at] gmail.com

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