fetch all tweets..

[Tim Chase]

> This question is for any python-twitter developer

while I don't use python-twitter, I do use Andrew Price's Twyt 
for my python+twitter scripting (I started to type 
"python+twitter scripting needs", but "needs" is SOOOOoooo not 
the right word for anything regarding twitter).

> import twitter
> 
> api = twitter.Api();
> sta = api.GetUserTimeline('ShashiTharoor')
> i = 0
> for s in sta:
>     i +=1
>     print str(i) + "  " + s.text
>     print
> 
> The above code only fetches 20 tweets. How can I fetch all tweets ??

I believe the API limits to 200 tweets.  With twyt, I can just 
ask for .status_user_timeline(count=200) and get the last 200 
tweets.  I can also specify .status_user_timeline(count=200, 
since=tweet_id) to get those since a particular tweet.  Your 
twitter API may have similar tools to specify the count, the 
starting ID, or the "page#" like twyt does.

-tkc