Retrieving all(!) of the tweets of a user

Question

I want to get all the tweets of a user using twitter API 1.1 and this end point:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json

The documents of twitter API https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline says there's a limit which is 3200 (the parameter count). If that's the case, how do I retrieve all(!) of the tweets of a user, not only 3200?

Answer 1

just from the API documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline

Have you tried to send several requests setting different values for since_id and max_id?

max_id: Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID.

since_id: Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent than) the specified ID.