Question

while(page<=500):
    tweets=api.GetSearch("#Burma",per_page=100)

Why it gives me so much duplicated result . It give me just one page and repeat it 500 times. It gives me the same tweets as of first page . Can anyone please give me a clue .

Answer 1

You need to ask twitter for each page separately; in your loop you keep asking for the same page each time, without passing the page number to the search query:

import twitter

api = twitter.Api()
page = 1
while page <= 500:
    tweets = api.GetSearch("#Burma", page=page, per_page=100)
    for t in tweets:
        print t.text
    page += 1

You don’t need to use a while loop either, you can simplify the code by using a for loop instead, combined with the xrange() function:

api = twitter.Api()
for page in xrange(1, 501):
    tweets = api.GetSearch("#Burma", page=page, per_page=100)
    for t in tweets:
        print t.text