How can I get tweets older than a week (using tweepy or other python libraries)

Question

I have been trying to figure this out but this is a really frustrating. I\'m trying to get tweets with a certain hashtag (a great amount of tweets) using Tweepy. But this do

Answer 1

As others have noted, the Twitter API has the date limitation, but not the actual advanced search as implemented on twitter.com. So so the solution is to use Python's wrapper for Selenium or PhantomJS to iterate through the twitter.com endpoint. Here's an implementation using Selenium that someone has posted on Github: https://github.com/bpb27/twitter_scraping/