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I am using Tweepy and Python to access the Twitter API.

I would like to know if the following problem is common or it's happening just for me.

I am storing some tweets. Retweeted ones are stored in this fortmat:

RT @User [text of the tweet]

I notice here that even a user retweeted the text using the "Retweet" button, the text is always stored in the same format (RT @User [text of the tweet]) and of course when the Twitter API adds "RT @user" the whole text can exceeds 140 character and as a result it is stored but not in its full length.

If the problem is not a common bug, for those who used Tweepy, does the bug comes from it or from Twitter API ?

4m1nh4j1
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  • Possible duplicate of [Tweepy Truncated Status](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42050289/tweepy-truncated-status) – mountrix May 15 '17 at 20:59

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Retweets are special kinds of tweets with an additional node called "retweeted_status". The original, unaltered tweet text of the original tweet is in the text field of retweeted_status, not the top-most text field like traditional tweets.

Try following,

import tweepy
import urllib2
import json
consumer_key='#'
consumer_secret='#'
access_token_key='#'
access_token_secret='#'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token_key, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

public_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name="@HandleHere",count=25,page=1,include_rts=True)
all_items=[]
[all_items.append(i) for i in public_tweets]

for i in all_items:
    try:
        if i.retweeted_status:
            print i.retweeted_status.text
    except:
        pass

It will print full retweeted tweet.

Nishant Nawarkhede
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This is not a bug but a normal behavior. To quote the tweeter documentation for the truncated field:

Indicates whether the value of the text parameter was truncated, for example, as a result of a retweet exceeding the 140 character Tweet length. Truncated text will end in ellipsis, like this ...

[...]

Note that while native retweets may have their toplevel text property shortened, the original text will be available under the retweeted_status object and the truncated parameter will be set to the value of the original status (in most cases, false).

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Ara
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  • It's wired since in Twitter the concerned tweet is not truncated but when reading it with the API it is truncated. – 4m1nh4j1 May 04 '14 at 11:56