Favorited state in search is always false

I’ve been trying to use the status.favorited variable of a status retrieved by api.search but it was always false. When trying to favorite this tweet it gave me exceptions with a message that that tweet was already favorited. After some help from the discord, I’ve discovered that this is fault on the twitter API itself [1]. My suggestion is to internally cross reference with a user’s favorites to mitigate this.

As a developer, this was not a fun experience and I want to prevent this from happening to others.

[1] https://twittercommunity.com/t/favorited-reports-as-false-even-if-status-is-already-favorited-by-the-user/11145

[Harmon758]

Please don’t necro-bump old closed issues.

@thekillgfx That is the same thread that is linked in this issue and that was added to the documentation with https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/commit/1ab151956ec2874ae0f724ebf97d030f9ca9f5c8, the commit that closed this issue. The relevant Twitter API documentation you’re referencing was also added to Tweepy’s documentation in that commit.

As for Twitter API v2 support, see #1472.

[Freyja-Folkvangr]

@lg188 I’ve found a workaround for this. for each status, overwrite that status by the same status, but from a different endpoint.

status = api.get_status(status.id)