api.user_timeline not grabbing full tweet

Hello, I am having an issue with not grabbing a full tweet when using the api.user_timeline method. Was wondering if anyone could help me out with it? Tweepy code is below:

twitter_name = input("Enter a Twitter Handle: ")
for name in twitter_name:
    try:
        stuff = api.user_timeline(screen_name = twitter_name, count = 100, include_rts = False)
    except tweepy.TweepError as e:
        twitter_name = input("The handle you entered was invalid, please try again: ")
    catchcount = 0

This returns the tweet followed by ‘…’ then a link. Ideally I would like to return the full tweet. Is there a way to do that while still using the api.user_timeline method? Or another method that allows specified tweet count and returns a list of Status objects without specifying a tweet ID number? like in the api.get_status method with param tweet_mode = 'extended' but for returning multiple tweets at a time.

Other info regarding similar issues see: #935 Much appreciated!!

[corycomer]

You can include the tweet_mode = 'extended' param with most of the API calls, user_timeline included.

stuff = api.user_timeline(screen_name = twitter_name, count = 100, include_rts = False, tweet_mode = 'extended')

Should return the full tweet. Keep in mind, the response object is slightly different, and you’ll want to look for full_text instead of just text.

[Harmon758]

I’ve added a section in the documentation that covers extended Tweets to supplement Twitter’s Tweet updates documentation.

@kamalikap What error are you referring to? It’s impossible to determine what your issue is without more information, such as a traceback and/or any relevant code. However, when using extended mode, the text attribute of the Status object is replaced with a full_text attribute, not full-text, which would be an invalid attribute name.

@puntofisso When using extended mode, the text attribute of the Status object is replaced with a full_text attribute.

For code block usage, see https://help.github.com/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks/.

@Nahaj That is not related to this issue.

If you’re using API.user_timeline, the maximum number of Tweets to try and retrieve per distinct request is 200, as specified for the documentation for the count parameter of the GET statuses/user_timeline endpoint that the method uses.

To retrieve more than 200, you’ll need to perform multiple requests and iterate through the pages. Tweepy provides a Cursor to facilitate pagination. See the Cursor Tutorial documentation.