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Sean
Sean

Reputation: 17

Can't use Cursor with get_users_tweets in Tweepy v2 API

I'm trying to retrieve the most recent 3200 tweets from a user with the Tweepy v2 API. I authenticate fine and find the user with:

client = tweepy.Client(bearer_token=bearer_token,....
user = client.get_user(username=screen_name)

I can't seem to use a Cursor to get the tweets like this:

tweets = tweepy.Cursor(client.get_users_tweets,
                       id=user.data.id,
                       count=200).items(3200)

The error is "tweepy.errors.TweepyException: This method does not perform pagination". The Tweepy docs say that get_users_tweets does support pagination, though.

ETA traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/sean/projects/misc/./tweet-dump.py", line 71, in <module>
    get_all_tweets("Daily_Epsilon")
  File "/Users/sean/projects/misc/./tweet-dump.py", line 23, in get_all_tweets
    tweets = tweepy.Cursor(client.get_users_tweets,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tweepy/cursor.py", line 40, in __init__
    raise TweepyException('This method does not perform pagination')
tweepy.errors.TweepyException: This method does not perform pagination

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1059

Answers (1)

Micka&#235;l Martinez
Micka&#235;l Martinez

Reputation: 1843

The tweepy.Cursor handles pagination for the Twitter API V1.1.

Since you are using Twitter API V2, you have to use a tweepy.Paginator (see here).

So your code should be something like that:

# Please note that the count argument is called max_results in this method
paginator = tweepy.Paginator(client.get_users_tweets, id=user.data.id, max_results=200)

for tweet in paginator.flatten(limit=3200):
    print(tweet)

Upvotes: 3

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