Getting a users entire twitter timeline with tweepy

Question

I am trying to retrieve a list that contains the entire contents of my personal twitter statuses with python and tweepy.

I have successfully authenticated via OAuth but cannot seem to recieve more than about 800 status updates from twitter. My twitter bio page says I have over 2000 tweets. I am well within the 3200 tweet limit Twitter imposes on us.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is my current code (minus OAuth API authentication):

for page in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, count=200).pages(16):
    page_list.append(page)
    n = n+1
    print n

for page in page_list:
    for status in page:
       print status.text

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '12 at 22:30

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You need to specify include_rts=True as a parameter to api.user_timeline; retweets are not included by default. If you retweet a lot of things, this is likely where your missing tweets have gone.

answered Jul 05 '12 at 22:30

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@Time Bueno Does this allow one to address the limit of 3200 tweet per user? – Ayushi Dalmia Jun 07 '16 at 18:46

air-dex · Answer 2 · 2017-11-25T11:40:46.693

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Twitter does not return more than 800 statuses. This is written in the Twitter API documentation (https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-home_timeline) :

This method is can only return up to 800 statuses, including retweets, across all pages.

edited Nov 25 '17 at 11:40

answered Jul 05 '12 at 22:23

air-dex

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Note that he is using user_timeline, which allows for 3200 – BlackBear Oct 04 '16 at 08:29
11/25/2017: the link to the Twitter API is now updated. – air-dex Nov 25 '17 at 11:41

Getting a users entire twitter timeline with tweepy

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