Getting full tweet text from "user_timeline" with tweepy

Question

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            & push backs to #Serbia. We've seen push backs before so\u2026 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 &  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?

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]

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.