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Hi Eric, I remember reading in the API documentation, that the free Public API only goes back 7 days and it only accounts for ~1% of all tweets. You may need to upgrade API accounts. Darnelle [image: UNLV Logo] <http://unlv.edu/> Darnelle O. Melvin Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian Assistant Professor University Libraries University of Nevada, Las Vegas [log in to unmask] Office: 702-895-2146 <17028952146> Twitter <https://twitter.com/metadataguy> • ORCID <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4614-3504> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:15 PM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Despite having a Twitter Developer Account, I still can not seem to get > Twarc to retrieve tweets older than thirty days, and I'm wondering what I'm > doing incorrectly. > > I created and was granted by Twitter a developer account called nfc4ds. > The account has a number of subscriptions, and one of them is called > "Search Tweets: Full Archive / Sandbox". I then dutifully created a twitter > application complete with an API key and secret. I then authorized Twarc (a > Python tool/library) to use the application. I then used Twarc to search > Twitter with this query: > > from:ericleasemorgan > > The result was a set of a few tweets. > > I then used the following query, but the results were empty: > > (from:ericleasemorgan) until:2019-12-31 since:2019-01-01 > > What am I doing wrong? Is Twarc unable to query things from the past? Does > my subscription not really include the full archive? > > -- > Eric Morgan > University of Notre Dame >