I'd like to get Tweets with #MeTooMen using Tweepy. There are many Tweets using this hashtag as far as I searched Twitter, but I get 0 result when I try to get these Tweets with Tweepy. Do you have any idea what I can do to improve this code?
import os
import tweepy as tw
import pandas as pd
api_key = '*'
api_secret_key = '*'
access_token = '*'
access_token_secret = '*'
auth = tw.OAuthHandler(api_key, api_secret_key)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tw.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
# Define the search term and the date_since date as variables
search_words = "#metoomen"
date_since = "2017-10-17"
date_until = "2018-01-31"
tweets = tw.Cursor(api.search,
q = search_words,
lang = "en",
since = date_since,
until = date_until).items(5)
users_locs = [[tweet.user.screen_name, tweet.user.location, tweet.text] for tweet in tweets]
users_locs
>>> []
API.search uses Twitter's standard search API and doesn't accept date_since or date_until parameters:
Keep in mind that the search index has a 7-day limit. In other words, no tweets will be found for a date older than one week.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/tweets/search/guides/standard-operators also says:
[It] is not a complete index of all Tweets, but instead an index of recent Tweets. The index includes between 6-9 days of Tweets.
You'll need to use the Full-archive premium search API endpoint, with API.search_full_archive, instead.