Searching twitter BIO's - but not getting any results back-CodePudding

when I start my code, it doesn't return any results, any idea what could be going wrong? I have it searching a yaml file with around 15~ keywords, and if it finds profiles with these keywords, it will notify me of their username bio.

my yaml file:

keywords:
  - Free|free Mint|mint
  - Private|private Discord|discord
  - Discord|discord Invite|invite Only|only
  - Coming|coming soon|Soon
  - DM|dm|Dm for|For collaboration|Collaboration
  - DM|dm|Dm for|For
  - Discord|discord closed
  - No|no Discord|discord
  - No|no Roadmap|roadmap
  - Mint|mint date|Date
  - Founded|founded by|By
  - Created|created by|By
  - Minting|minting
  - Supply|supply

I have also tried adding simple words to the yaml file, just to try to get some type of results.

# define authentication handler
auth_handler = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(consumer_key,consumer_secret)

# Set access tokens
auth_handler.set_access_token(access_token,access_token_secret)

# Creating the API
api = tweepy.API(auth_handler,wait_on_rate_limit=True)

# Set the path to the YAML file
yaml_path = 'C:\\Users\\CF\\Desktop\\New tweepy testing\\keywords.yaml'

def get_keywords(yaml_path):
    """
    Reads keywords from a YAML file and returns them as a list.
    
    Parameters:
    - yaml_path: The path to the YAML file
    
    Returns:
    - A list of keywords
    """
    # Open the YAML file
    with open(yaml_path, 'r') as f:
        # Parse the YAML file
        data = yaml.safe_load(f)

    # Retrieve the list of keywords from the YAML file
    keywords = data['keywords']

    # Return the keywords
    return keywords

# Get the keywords from the YAML file
keywords = get_keywords(yaml_path)

# Set the starting page number
page = 1

# Set the maximum number of pages to retrieve
max_pages = 100

# Set a flag to indicate when to stop paginating
done = False

# Iterate through the pages of search results
while not done:
    # Search for profiles using the 'users/search' endpoint
    results = api.search_users(q=keywords, page=page)

# Iterate through the search results and print the screen name and biography of each profile
if results:
    for user in results:
        # Encode the screen name and biography in UTF-8 encoding
        screen_name = user.screen_name.encode('utf-8')
        biography = user.description.encode('utf-8')

        # Print the screen name and biography
        print(f'Screen name: {screen_name}')
        print(f'Biography: {biography}')
else:
    print('No results found.')

CodePudding user response：

You are passing the entire keywords list to q= in your API call. Change how you iterate the keywords.

# old
while not done:
    # Search for profiles using the 'users/search' endpoint
    results = api.search_users(q=keywords, page=page)

# new
for word in keywords:
    results = api.search_users(q=word, page=page)