RE: Need help with programming my bot to auto search and provide canned reply to posts on twitter or insta

The search uses the Twitter advanced search syntax, so any query should work.

You can copy the "q" from the URL Twitter's advanced search give you,

For example search for "foo" or "bar" near "Toronto", the q= is,

foo%20bar%20near%3A"Toronto"%20within%3A15mi

which URL decoded is,

foo bar near:"Toronto" within:15mi

So you can enter this in your bot's Tweet Search.