AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search_full_archive'

I’m having problems accessing historical content using both of the new search_full_archive and search_30_day features. I’ve updated tweepy to Version: 3.9.0, yet still when I try to run either api.search_full_archive or api.search_30_day I get AttributeError: ‘API’ object has no attribute ‘search_full_archive’… however when I do the equivalent search using regular api.search I get results as expected.

I will note that I am using the free sandbox versions and do have different environment names for my 30-days sandbox and my full-history sandbox.

Any thoughts?

api = tweepy.API(auth, parser=tweepy.parsers.JSONParser(), wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

test = api.search_30_day(environment_name='30daycerb', q = '#cerb')

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-73-0b2b236c134b> in <module>
----> 1 test = api.search_30_day(environment_name='30daycerb',
      2                                             q = '#cerb')

AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search_30_day'

my_new_tweets = api.search_full_archive(environment_name='cerbhistory', query='#CERB')

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-74-c8e25af8d1ef> in <module>
----> 1 my_new_tweets = api.search_full_archive(environment_name='cerbhistory', query='#CERB')

AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search_full_archive'

[sdelgadoc]

For some reason, the latest tweepy package doesn’t ship with the latest version of the api.py file, which includes the search_30_day, and search_full_archive methods.

However, the latest version of the code on GitHub does include these methods.

To solve your issue try uninstalling tweepy:

pip uninstall tweepy

and then install it directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git

This fixed the issue for me, and I hope it does for you too.

[AndChen153]

For some reason, the latest tweepy package doesn’t ship with the latest version of the api.py file, which includes the search_30_day, and search_full_archive methods.

However, the latest version of the code on GitHub does include these methods.

To solve your issue try uninstalling tweepy:

pip uninstall tweepy

and then install it directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git

This fixed the issue for me, and I hope it does for you too.

I had the same issue with the search methods and this solved it for me too. thanks for the help!