title: How to retrieve full text tweets using tweepy?
body: <p>I am trying to scrape tweets from a user-defined Twitter profile. Having read previous posts I understand that the Twitter JSON has a section for extended tweets. I've added <code>tweet_mode='extended'</code> into my <code>api.user_timeline</code> section and changed <code>.text</code> to <code>.full_text.</code></p>
  
  <p>However, I am still getting truncated tweets. I understand that retweets have a full_text attribute but I am scraping the timeline and not separating tweets from retweets.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to universally query tweets and retrieve the full_text version. I have included my code below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>screen_name_list = ['@x']
  
  for name in screen_name_list:
      user = api.get_user(name)
  
      #initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
      alltweets = []  
  
      #make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)
      new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = name, count = 200,tweet_mode='extended', include_rts=True)
  
      #save most recent tweets
      alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
  
      #save the id of the oldest tweet less one
      oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
  
      #keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
      while len(new_tweets) &gt; 0:
        print 'getting tweets before %s' % (oldest)
  
          #all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
          new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = name, count=200, max_id=oldest, tweet_mode='extended')
  
          #save most recent tweets
          alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
  
          #update the id of the oldest tweet less one
          oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
  
          print "...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))
  
      #transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv 
      outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.full_text.encode('utf-8')] for tweet in alltweets]
      tweet_time = [index[1] for index in outtweets]
      tweet_list = [index[2] for index in outtweets]
  </code></pre>