Intro to Python for Computer Science and Data Science: Learning to Program with AI, Big Data and The Cloud

13.10 Searching Recent Tweets

The Tweepy API method search returns tweets that match a query string. According to the method’s documentation, Twitter maintains its search index only for the previous seven days’ tweets, and a search is not guaranteed to return all matching tweets. Method search calls Twitter’s search/tweets method¹⁸, which returns 15 tweets at a time by default, but can return up to 100.

18. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.

Utility Function print_tweets from tweetutilities.py

For this section, we created a utility function print_tweets that receives the results of a call to API method search and for each tweet displays the user’s screen_name and the tweet’s text. If the tweet ...