from_date or until_date

Hi,

Thanks for your amazing work. I’m trying to get tweets from a specific period. For instance, I tried:

twarc search '(from:jlincio) until:2017-09-01 since:2017-04-01' > search.jsonl

`twarc search @jlincio
–from_date 2017-04-01
–to_date 2017-09-01
–limit 1000 \

tweets.jsonl`

@jlincio is my account. In either case, I get an empty file.

If I use:

twarc search 'from:jlincio until:2017-09-01' > search.jsonl

I get data but the query doesn’t use the date.

I would highly appreciate any help,

Thanks.

[SamHames]

Unfortunately the free Twitter search API that twarc uses for that command only makes the last 7 days of tweets available (searching further back through the API requires the paid premium access).

If you’re only interested in your own tweets you might be able to retrieve your own timeline: twarc timeline > my_tweets.jsonl (assuming twarc is authenticated as the jlincio user), or the twitter archive download when that comes back online.

[jincio]

And if you are looking for someone else’s tweets (or your own) you can use twint which scrapes the web interface, so YMMV:

twint --search 'from:jlincio until:2017-09-01 since:2017-04-01' --csv --output tweets.csv

It works well! Thanks so much.