userTimeline by date range

[alanault]

Although the searchTwitter function allows you to specify time periods with the since/until arguments, the userTimeline function doesn't seem to allow this.

There is a "sinceID" field, but this requires you to know the ID of the tweet you'd like to use as the age reference.

Is there a way to specify dates using userTimeline, or is this an underlying limitation of the API?

[alanault]

Got around this by doing a query for n posts, storing the last id, saving out a table and then querying based on this, but seems like a long way around....

[geoffjentry]

It is indeed a limitation of the API. However I've simulated that behavior in other places. I'll try to do this when I get a chance.