Using python to retrieve popular tweets

Question

I am using Twython to get popular tweets. However I am only getting 15 per search function call. I already tried passing the count argument to the function to get more but it keeps returning 15.

Here is the code:

result = twitter.search(q='a', count=100, result_type='popular')

for item in result['statuses']:
    print(item['text'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'))

I also tried setting count='100' and count="100" but it is the same.

Thank you.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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Try:

result = twitter.search(q='a', count=100)

Although this doesn't work with result_type='popular' and I haven't figured out why.

Also look into paginated search results here: Twython search API with next_results

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Apr 04 '14 at 00:38

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '15 at 10:29

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Same thing happened with me, with twitter-node-client for future searchers. Looks like it's a bug with the Twitter api .

answered May 23 '15 at 10:29

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