Perform a search between two dates

[juniortestjr]

Here is an example code from github :

import social.bigbone.MastodonClient;
import social.bigbone.api.entity.Search;
import social.bigbone.api.exception.BigBoneRequestException;

public class PerformSimpleSearch {
    public static void main(final String[] args) throws BigBoneRequestException {
        final String instance = args[0];
        final String accessToken = args[1];
        final String searchTerm = args[2];

        // Instantiate client
        final MastodonClient client = new MastodonClient.Builder(instance)
                .accessToken(accessToken)
                .build();

        // Perform search and print results
        final Search searchResult = client.search().searchContent(searchTerm).execute();
        searchResult.getAccounts().forEach(account -> System.out.println(account.getDisplayName()));
        searchResult.getStatuses().forEach(status -> System.out.println(status.getContent()));
        searchResult.getHashtags().forEach(hashtag -> System.out.println(hashtag.getName()));
    }
}

And I would like to do a search where the results are between 2 dates.
But I do not know how.
Could you help me ?

[PattaFeuFeu]

Hi @juniortestjr! Thanks for your question. 😊

From what I can see in the API documentation of the search method you’re referring to, it doesn’t look like we can limit the search to dates.

We have implemented the search API fully, so we allow you to use all parameters available in the API. There just isn’t any parameter for dates unfortunately.

What you could do is limit by ids. For that, you can use the Range parameter of search().searchContent(). Not sure if that’ll help you though.

What you could also do is get a larger quantity of search results and then filtering by date locally in your application. Not the greatest solution as you’d need to get loads of results first that you might not even be interested in. But I currently see no other way from what the API allows us to do.

[juniortestjr]

Thanks for your response. I'll try to see what I can do with what you answered. Thank you so much for your response.