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cylee
cylee

Reputation: 570

Why tweepy cannot retrieve media data of some tweets?

I'm using tweepy to develop the program that retrieves media urls and download them. While testing some tweets, I found something weird. So this is what I did:

import tweepy

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

status = api.get_status(908827394856947712)

The original url of this tweet is 'https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908827394856947712' and this tweet DOES contain an image. While studying status._json, I figured out that the links of media files are contained in either status._json['entities'] or status._json['extended_entities'] but I couldn't find ['extended_entities'] and ['entities'] doesn't contain image link.

What makes me annoying is that some tweets have this problem and most do not. So why does this happen and how can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1107

Answers (1)

Terence Eden
Terence Eden

Reputation: 14304

If you take a look through the response, you will see "truncated": true,

Twitter recently changed how tweets are presented - see their documentation https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-tweets

With your request, you need to set tweet_mode=extended

So: api.get_status('908827394856947712', tweet_mode='extended')

Upvotes: 2

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