Only got 24 cards? about getcards HOT 3 CLOSED

The script seems to be working as designed for pulling cards from twitter. However, I see when pulling tweets, only 286 are returned. This could be a limitation of the twitter API, I don't know.

What you could do is use the time library to get around the rate limitation (if that is the problem).

You could do something like

while (True):
    time.sleep(5*60) #sleep needs time in seconds. Sleep 5 minutes before truing again
    more_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name='chrisalbon',
                                count=200,
                                include_rts=False,
                                exclude_replies=True,
                                max_id=last_id-1)
                                    
    # There are no more tweets
    if (len(more_tweets) == 0):
          break
    else:
        last_id = more_tweets[-1].id-1
        tweets += more_tweets
        

There may be another way to get more tweets, I'm not sure. Feel free to investigate and make a PR.

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Good catch. I just tried pulling my own tweets, and the script works as expected. This has something to do with Chris' account. Maybe Chris deleted old tweets, maybe twitter is archiving them. Either way, this is out of my control, and so if there is nothing else to address, I am closing the issue.

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When I go to his Twitter page and scroll down, it won't let me see Tweets from before February 21.

Coincidentally, February 22 was the last card I downloaded: the IQR. So does Twitter archive old Tweets? I checked the Twitter API rate limits and I don't think we are crossing any of them, as they are listed here.

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