Can't track hashtags with '#' in the 'filter' query

[glocalglocal]

I am trying to track two hashtags, the equivalent of "#string1 OR #string2".

This works:
twarc filter string1,string2 > filename

but I can't find a working syntax that includes the '#' either by experimentation or in twitter's documentation. I tried comma, 'OR', and single/double quotes. Even twarc filter #string1 > filename fails to capture any tweets. Is there a way to specify hashtags at all?

[edsu]

Yes, this is the shell getting in the way because # is used for comments in most unix shells. Try quoting your filter string like this:

twarc filter '#string1,#string2' > filename

I believe the docs for filter state that filtering on string1 will include tweets with #string1 in them. But who knows what really goes on behind the scenes...

[glocalglocal]

'#string1,#string2' doesn't work. I am not sure if the '#' can be escaped in a shell command.

Yes, string1 will include #string1 apparently. If there is no other way, I may have to collect promiscuously and later filter out the tweets without #string1. A Python utility might be an idea, but I am not sure I can do that just yet.

[edsu]

Yes filtering on hashtags should be pretty easy after the fact. If you need help let us know in the docnow slack: https://bit.ly/docnow-slack

[igorbrigadir]

Closing some old issues - this depends on where you run twarc, but this works:

twarc filter "#cats,#dogs" > hashtags.jsonl

How to escape # in the command line / shell, depends on the OS and the shell itself.