python - How to search tweets with certain emoji -

i doing project using python emoji recommendation system. first step collecting data twitter. specifically, need tweets using top popular emojis. thinking crawling website or use twitter api. didn't see anywhere in twitter document how search emoji(maybe using unicode, example, u+1f602).

thanks in advance!

the twitter rest api specify call search/tweets

returns collection of relevant tweets matching specified query.

the query param q should utf-8 encoded try passing utf-8 encoding of emojis looking for.

edit: went on tweets emojis in them, images, doesn't can search on them.