Twitter – How to filter Twitter posts without links

First you need to find the format of the tweet that the video site generates.

Then find the text that will be consistent across all the tweets - most likely the URL to the video. The only case where it might not be would be if the website tracked referrals and therefore had a unique URL for each user.

Assuming you can find this piece of unique text just search for that using the Twitter web site. You can use the search functionality even if you aren't signed in to Twitter.

Edit:

Twitter deprecated Twitter API v.1. So this info is also deprecated now. You can access the same api by using the URL https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json. Though this endpoint does not seem to be identical to the previous endpoint outlined before.

See Twiter API documentation for details.

Original Text:

As far as I know Twitter Search API is the best thing we've got as of now. And Twitter Search API supports searching timeline of any user. In fact "Search" text box of Twitter (at the top of Twitter page) uses the search API, so you can experiment using that search box.

For example searching

twitter from:yourusername

shows your tweets with word twitter .

You can use the same query for searching from your timeline, or from any users timeline. An API call identical to the example query would be

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitter%20from%3Ayourusername

Note that Twitter Search API has some limitations. They are discussed at Twitter Search API Documentation.

For searching tweets from a list, I am not aware of a quick solution. You can always use

https://api.twitter.com/1/lists/members.json?slug=listname&owner_screen_name=yourusername

to get list members and construct a query manually by using the OR keyword as:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitter%20from%3Auser1%20OR%20from%3Auser2