I've put together this short script to search twitter. The majority of the tweets from this search date back from a year ago. It was in connection with a kickstarter campaign. When I run this script though I only get newer tweets that aren't relevant to that term anymore. Could anybody tell me what I need to do to get it the way I want? When I search for the terms on twitter it gives me the right results.
import tweepy
import csv
consumer_key = 'x'
consumer_secret = 'x'
access_token = 'x'
access_token_secret = 'x'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
# Open/Create a file to append data
csvFile = open('tweets.csv', 'a')
#Use csv Writer
csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
results = api.search(q="kickstarter campaign")
for result in results:
csvWriter.writerow([result.created_at, result.text.encode('utf-8')])
print result.created_at, result.text
csvFile.close()
