Getting whole user timeline of a Twitter user

Question

I want to get the all of a user tweets from one Twitter user and so far this is what I came up with:

import twitter
import json
import sys
import tweepy 
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Answer 1

There's a few issues with your code, including some superfluous imports. Particularly, you don't need to import twitter and import tweepy - tweepy can handle everything you need. The particular issue you are running into is one of pagination, which can be handled in tweepy using a Cursor object like so:

import tweepy

# Consumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

# OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

# Creation of the actual interface, using authentication
api = tweepy.API(auth)

for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, screen_name='@realDonaldTrump', tweet_mode="extended").items():
    print(status.full_text)