Result_type='popular' not returning more than 15 tweets

[guedessssssss]

I want to recover the 50 most popular tweets from a 5 day period, im using tweepy on python, and this is the search query i’m using:

public_tweets = api.search(q=‘Microsoft’, lang=‘en’, result_type=‘popular’, count=‘50’, since=‘2018-8-20’, until=‘2018-8-25’)

If i change result_type to ‘mixed’ or ‘recent’, it does return the 50 tweets, but if i change it to ‘popular’, it just returns 15 tweets, does anyone knows what may be wrong?

[abraham]

I don’t think “popular” is sort by the most popular. I think it’s return tweets that exceed some threshold of popularity. At that time at that location that’s all the tweets that met the criteria.

[guedessssssss]

This makes sense, but i doubt there’s only 15 tweets that met the criteria, and if i’m not mistaken, at some point it actually worked, but i don’t remember what was different from my current code. Thank you very much for the response anyway

[LeBraat]

Hello @guedessssssss - We actually will only deliver 15 results when you pass along the popular value with the result_type parameter. This is not currently documented, but I will make sure it does get in there.

I encourage you to use the the max_id parameter to pull additional popular Tweets beyond what is provided with the first payload.

[guedessssssss]

Oh i see, thank you very much.

[LeBraat]