Example of Tweepy search

gistfile1.txt

import tweepy

# grava um arquivo json para cada item
def save_result(data):
    filename = 'data/%s.json' % data['id']
    arquivo = open(filename, 'w')
    json.dump(data, arquivo)
    arquivo.close()

termo_de_busca = 'wikileaks'
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key='',consumer_secret='')
auth.set_access_token('aaa','aaa')a
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
results = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=termo_de_busca, tweet_mode='extended').items()
total = 0
for status in results:
    save_result(status._json)
    total += 1
    if total == 1000:
        break