Sandbox feature Issues

[Elikran]

Problem

Using Sandbox 30 day or full archive, when I pull 100 tweets, I can only get the most recent tweets and it pulls 99 not 100. Is there a way to get a random sample of the last 30 days, or does the API only pull the most recent tweets? Is this simply my misunderstanding of the twitter API? or is there a way to force it to pull a random sample?

Expected behavior

I expect a random sample of tweets in the last 30 days, but I only get the last day, after it pulls 100 tweets.

Reproduce the problem

sampledow <-search_30day(q = "#dowjones",
n = 100,
fromDate = "NULL",
toDate = "NULL",
env_name = "sandbox",
parse = TRUE,
token =NULL,
safedir = NULL)

### rtweet version

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``` r
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> packageVersion("rtweet")
[1] ‘0.6.9’

Session info

 sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] openssl_1.4.1  dplyr_0.8.3    ggplot2_3.2.1  tidytext_0.2.2 httpuv_1.5.2   rtweet_0.6.9  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.2        pillar_1.4.2      compiler_3.6.1    later_0.8.0       prettyunits_1.0.2 progress_1.2.2    tokenizers_0.2.1 
 [8] tools_3.6.1       digest_0.6.21     zeallot_0.1.0     jsonlite_1.6      tibble_2.1.3      gtable_0.3.0      lattice_0.20-38  
[15] pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_0.4.0       Matrix_1.2-17     curl_4.2          withr_2.1.2       janeaustenr_0.1.5 httr_1.4.1       
[22] askpass_1.1       generics_0.0.2    vctrs_0.2.0       hms_0.5.1         grid_3.6.1        tidyselect_0.2.5  glue_1.3.1       
[29] R6_2.4.0          purrr_0.3.2       magrittr_1.5      backports_1.1.4   scales_1.0.0      promises_1.0.1    SnowballC_0.6.0  
[36] assertthat_0.2.1  colorspace_1.4-1  labeling_0.3      stringi_1.4.3     lazyeval_0.2.2    munsell_0.5.0     crayon_1.3.4     

Token

rtweet::get_token()

request: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token authorize: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate access: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token *********** key: *********************** secret: oauth_token, oauth_token_secret

[hadley]

I don't see any evidence on https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/premium/search-api/api-reference/premium-search that API provides some way to get a random selection of tweets, and I can't think of any way that rtweet could implement random sampling itself.