Searching and extracting top retweets using tweepy

Question

I need to extract the top retweets for a given search tag.For that purpose ive done this

search = []
page = 1
while(1):
    tweets = api.search(tag,page = page)
    for tweet in tweets:
        search.append(tweet)
    page = page + 1

and then from search using regular expressions I managed to extract the top retweets.

But the problem is the loop stops after 330 tweets,and the retweets are from those 330 only.

Is my approach correct,is there a way to scrape more of twitter or is there a more direct way of accessing retweets?

Answer 1

There seems to be a limit in the number of tweet you can get in an hour: 350 from what I understand from dev twitter.