How to scrape tweets containing a specific link using twitter API in python?

Question

I am using tweepy library to retrieve tweets containing specific link but it doesn't return anything.

Here is the code :

####input your credentials here
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True)


for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='www.democracynow.org/2018/4/18/americas_1_weapons_salesman_trump_promotes', count=10,
                           lang="en",
                           since="2017-04-03").items():
    print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)

I tried the normal link and the encoded one but both didn't work. There is no error, it's just empty.

Is there a workaround ?

Harmon758 · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-07 07:32:54Z

1

If you perform a search on Twitter's website for your query, you'll see that there are no results.
Instead, you're probably wanting to search for "https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/18/americas_1_weapons_salesman_trump_promotes".

However, note that Twitter's standard search API has a limit of 7 days, and all the results for that search are much older than that. You'll have to use the premium or enterprise search APIs for older results.

answered Dec 7, 2019 at 7:32

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