Twitter – How to search someone else’s old tweets

I'm not sure it's possible to get ALL tweets without providing a search term. That would be a hell of a lot of data - even just for this year.

There are a list of services here however all them require you to provide a search term.

Your best bet may be Archivist as they actually allow you to download the source code of the site. You may be able to customise this to do what you want.

If all that fails, your only other option would be to contact Twitter directly and see if they can provide you with a years worth of data. I wouldn't hold out much hope for that though!

Good luck!

It actually depends on the amount of tweets with that hashtag. If the amount is really less, it might be possible. Twitter documentation mentions that -

Clients may access a theoretical maximum of 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for the user_timeline REST API methods. Other timeline methods have a theoretical maximum of 800 statuses. Requests for more than the limit will result in a reply with a status code of 200 and an empty result in the format requested. Twitter still maintains a database of all the tweets sent by a user. However, to ensure performance of the site, this artificial limit is temporarily in place.

Add to that, the search API's page parameters says -

The page number (starting at 1) to return, up to a max of roughly 1500 results (based on rpp * page).

So that would mean that Twitter doesn't intend to give back All the data it consumed. It'll hold back some. In that case, you cannot do anything, unless you find a third party service that indexes tweets.

The best bet if to try searching combining the since_id, rpp and until parameters and see how far you can go.