-is:retweet not working

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Hello,

I have a problem with the searchtweets python implementation of the twitter API and I was wondering if anyone can help.

Here is my basic script:

import json
from searchtweets import ResultStream, load_credentials, gen_rule_payload
from searchtweets.api_utils import gen_request_parameters

from_date = "2020-03-31 00:00"
to_date = "2020-04-01 00:00"

login = load_credentials(filename="./src/search_tweets_creds_example.yaml",
                         yaml_key="search_tweets_ent_example",
                         env_overwrite=False)


rule = gen_rule_payload('#prayforboris -is:retweet',
                        results_per_call=100,
                        from_date=from_date,
                        to_date=to_date
                        )


rs = ResultStream(rule_payload=rule,
                  max_results=100,
                  **login)

results = list(rs.stream())
print(results)

with open('./data/first/tweets_{}_{}.json'.format(from_date, to_date), 'w') as fp:
    json.dump(results, fp)

It works perfectly without the -is:retweet. is:retweet (i.e. without negation) doesn’t work either. I get a requests.exceptions.HTTPError, suggesting it doesn’t like the rule payload. I want to get tweets from that hashtag that aren’t retweets - can anyone help me work out why this won’t work?

Full disclosure - currently using the Sandbox for the Premium API. Is that the problem? The documentation suggests it should be accessible.

Similar problems here: Avoiding retweets ideas aside from -is:retweet and Issue with is:retweet and 422.

[IgorBrigadir]

Yeah, confusingly, Sandbox Premium is different to Paid Premium - Operators by product | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform is:retweet is only enabled on a paid premium endpoint - so sandbox won’t work. I don’t know why they made is so sandbox is so different to the paid one - kinda defeats the purpose of a “sandbox” being a demo, should call it “Free” instead.

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@IgorBrigadir Thanks a lot for your reply. Agree with you - I will have to get a full premium account it seems!