# Get raw twitter message

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-raw-twitter-message/131784>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-raw-twitter-message/131784 "2018-05-14T16:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fernando\_Macho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/76d3ee/32.png) [@Fernando\_Macho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Macho)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-raw-twitter-message/131784/1 "2018-05-14T16:10:59Z")

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Hi, I'm trying to get the raw message that the twitter plugin processes. This is possible?  
The message field is empty and the plugin does not accept anything similar to metadata\_enabled =\> true.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![yaauie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yaauie/32/23363_2.png) [@yaauie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yaauie)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-raw-twitter-message/131784/2 "2018-05-14T22:25:28Z")

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It looks like the best we have is enabling DEBUG-level logging to get the user's screen name and the tweet body (which is going to get you quite a bit of other noise too):

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-twitter/blob/master/lib/logstash/inputs/twitter.rb#L187>

There is also a [`full_tweet` configuration option](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-twitter.html#plugins-inputs-twitter-full_tweet), which will expand the entire tweet into the event.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-raw-twitter-message/131784/3 "2018-06-11T22:25:28Z")

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