Getting full tweet text from "user_timeline" with tweepy

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I am using tweepy to fetch tweets from a user’s timeline using the script included here. However, the tweets are coming in truncated:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200, full_text=True)

Returns:

Status(contributors=None, 
     truncated=True, 
     text=u"#Hungary's new bill allows the detention of asylum seekers 
          &amp; push backs to #Serbia. We've seen push backs before sou2026 https:// 
          t.co/iDswEs3qYR", 
          is_quote_status=False, 
          ...

That is, for some i, new_tweets[i].text.encode("utf-8") appears like

#Hungary's new bill allows the detention of asylum seekers &amp; 
push backs to #Serbia. We've seen push backs before so…https://t.co/
iDswEs3qYR

Where the ... in the latter replaces text that would normally be displayed on Twitter.

Does anyone know how I can override truncated=True to get the full text on my request?

Asked By: atkat12

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Answer 1

Instead of full_text=True you need tweet_mode=”extended”

Then, instead of text you should use full_text to get the full tweet text.

Your code should look like:

new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200, tweet_mode="extended")

Then in order to get the full tweets text:

tweets = [[tweet.full_text] for tweet in new_tweets]

Answered By: Manolis Kyriakakis

Answer 2

Manolis’s answer is good but not complete. To get the extended version of a tweet (as in Manoli’s version), you would do :

tweetL = api.user_timeline(screen_name='sdrumm', tweet_mode="extended")
tweetL[8].full_text
'Statement of the day at #WholeChildSummit2019 - “‘SOME’ is not a number, and ‘SOON’ is not a time!” IMO, this is why educational systems get stuck. Who in your system will initiate change? TODAY! #HSEFutureReady'

However, if this tweet is a retweet, you’ll want to use the retweets’ full text:

tweetL = api.user_timeline(id=2271808427, tweet_mode="extended")
# This is still truncated
tweetL[6].full_text
'RT @blawson_lcsw: So proud of these amazing @HSESchools students who presented their ideas on how to help their peers manage stress in mean…'
# Use retweeted_status to get the actual full text
tweetL[6].retweeted_status.full_text
'So proud of these amazing @HSESchools students who presented their ideas on how to help their peers manage stress in meaningful ways! Thanks @HSEPrincipal for giving us your time!'

This was tested with Python 3.6 and tweepy-3.6.0.

Answered By: irritable_phd_syndrome

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