How to Exclude retweets and replies in a search api?

Old post, but people might still stumble upon it.

Most query operators are documented here: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search

But for the search/tweets method, you can also specify exclude:replies and/or exclude:retweets to filter out replies and retweets from the result.

Just test it in the API Console Tool and see for yourself.

Bonus: Another undocumented query operator is filter:verified to get tweets from verified users.

Example query: cats filter:vine filter:verified exclude:replies exclude:retweets

I beleive the above is incorrect, you can use filters in the search API but the documentation is very poor (non-existent?).

Your query would become:

?q=from:rioferdy AND -filter:retweets AND -filter:replies&count=20&result_type=recent

More tips for filtering were obtained here: How to Master Twitter Search: Basic Boolean Operators and Filters