Verify user retweeted a tweet - Social Actions API

This endpoint provides a convenient way to check if a user retweeted a tweet identified by tweet_id. This will recursively retrieve all users who recently retweeted a tweet and check if the user_id is present among the retrieved users.

GET https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/tweets/{tweet_id}/retweeted_by/{user_id}

Headers

Authorization string required

Authorization Bearer header containing your SocialData API key

Example: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Path Parameters

tweet_id integer required

The numeric ID of the target tweet

Example: 1625802236571033602

user_id integer required

The numeric ID of the user

Example: 1489552236571048124

Code Examples

curl "https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/tweets/456456456/retweeted_by/123123123" \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer API_KEY' \
    -H 'Accept: application/json'

const tweetId = '456456456';
const userId = '123123123';
const API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';

fetch(`https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/tweets/${tweetId}/retweeted_by/${userId}`, {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${API_KEY}`,
        'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(response => console.log(response))
.catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

tweetId = '456456456';
userId = '123123123';
API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'

url = f'https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/tweets/{tweetId}/retweeted_by/{userId}'

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {API_KEY}',
    'Accept': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    print(data)
else:
    print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")
    print(response.text)

$tweetId = '456456456';
$userId = '123123123';
$API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';

$url = "https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/tweets/{$tweetId}/retweeted_by/{$userId}";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY",
        "Accept: application/json"
    ]
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data);

curl_close($ch);

Example Responses

{
    "status": "success",
    "source_user_id": "123123123...",
    "target_tweet_id": "456456456...",
    "is_retweeted": true,
    "retweeters_checked_count": null // Deprecated, always null
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "Insufficient balance"
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "User not found"
}

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "Failed to fetch data from Twitter"
}

Response Codes

200 OK - request succeeded
402 Payment Required - not enough credits to perform this request
404 Not Found - requested tweet does not exist
422 Unprocessable Content - validation failed (e.g. one of the required parameters was not provided)
500 Internal Error - API internal error, typically means that SocialData API failed to obtain the requested information and you should try again later