Tweepy Why did I receive AttributeError for search [closed]

I received the following error message when I ran the code. The code should return the tweets that match the specified query. Did Twitter block the search attribute?

Error Message

for tweets in api.search(q="iphone", lang="en"): AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'search' 

Code:

import tweepy consumer_key = "XX" consumer_secret = "XX" access_token = "XX" access_token_secret = "X" # Creating the authentication object auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) # Setting your access token and secret auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) # Creating the API object while passing in auth information # Creating the API object while passing in auth information # Creating the API object while passing in auth information api = tweepy.API(auth) for tweets in api.search(q="iphone", lang="en"): print(tweet.text) 

2 Answers

Yes! search is not a valid attribute. According to the docs, you should use search_tweets.

Docs are here.

for tweets in api.search_tweets(q="iphone", lang="en"): print(tweet.text) 

Tweepy v4.0.0 was released yesterday and renamed API.search to API.search_tweets.

I would recommend simply renaming your method call, but you could also downgrade to Tweepy v3.10.0.