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Using twython to log all screen_names of users who posted about a certain keyword on a certain date

I am trying to print all screen_names found on a search result with Twython.
Here is my current code
#Import the required modules
from twython import Twython
#Setting the OAuth
Consumer_Key = ''
Consumer_Secret = ''
Access_Token = '-'
Access_Token_Secret = ''
#Connection established with Twitter API v1.1
twitter = Twython(Consumer_Key, Consumer_Secret,
Access_Token, Access_Token_Secret)
#Twitter is queried
response = twitter.search(q='Roblox', since='2017-02-25', until='2017-02-26')
for tweet in response["statuses"]:
st = tweet["entities"]["user_mentions"]
screen_name = st[0]["screen_name"]
f = open("output.txt", "a")
f.write(str(screen_name, ",\n"))
print(screen_name)
f.close()
but it is not editing or printing in the log file. Right as I start it, the program stops with no apparent error.
(the codes have been filled in, just removed for the post)

Get old tweets by user using tweepy

I am trying to gather the tweets of a user navalny, from 01.11.2017 to 31.01.2018 using tweepy. I have ids of the first and last tweets that I need, so I tried the following code:
import tweepy
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
t = api.user_timeline(screen_name='navalny', since_id = 933000445307518976, max_id = 936533580481814529)
However, the returned value is an empty list.
What is the problem here?
Are there any restrictions on the history of tweets that I can get?
What are possible solutions?

Quick answer:
Using Tweepy you can only retrieve the last 3200 tweets from the Twitter REST API for a given user.
Unfortunately the tweets you are trying to access are older than this.
Detailed answer:
I did a check using the code below:
import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
def tweet_check(user):
"""
Scrapes a users most recent tweets
"""
# API keys and initial configuration
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_secret = ""
# Configure authentication
authorisation = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
authorisation.set_access_token(access_token, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(authorisation)
# Requests most recent tweets from a users timeline
tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=user, count=2,
max_id=936533580481814529)
for tweet in tweets:
tid = tweet.id
print(tid)
twitter_users = ["#navalny"]
for twitter_user in twitter_users:
tweet_check(twitter_user)
This test returns nothing before 936533580481814529
Using a seperate script I scraped all 3200 tweets, the max Twitter will let you scrape and the youngest tweet id I can find is 943856915536326662
Seems like you have run into Twitter's tweet scraping limit for user timelines here.

Using Tweepy to get the results from saved searches on Twitter

I am trying to get the tweets from my saved searches using tweepy with python. I am not super great with Python, but the documentation seems pretty good, however, it is just returning empty lists. I know there are results for the searches because I can load them up in a browser. However, tweepy doesn't seem to see them.
import tweepy
CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
saved_searches = api.saved_searches()
for search in saved_searches:
saved_search = api.get_saved_search(search.id)
results = api.search(q=str(saved_search.query))
for result in results:
print(result.text)
Can anyone help me figure out what I am missing here?

Twitter API Get User ID from Status ID

I am creating a Twitter bot that will follow the creator of a given status.
I have the status ID (tweet ID), but I need to grab the user ID of the user who posted the tweet in order to follow them. How can I get this? I am using the Twyton package.

You should use the request statuses/show/:id as specified in the Twitter REST API
In Twython, you should call show_status like this:
from twython import Twython
# define application keys here
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
twitter = Twython(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)
status = twitter.show_status(id='tweet_id')
print status['user']['id_str']

How to get number of followers on twitter using tweepy

I am trying to output the number of followers one user has on twitter using tweepy, I have searched high and low to find some answers and I managed to get some code:
import oauth, tweepy, sys, locale, threading
from time import localtime, strftime, sleep
def init():
global api
consumer_key = "..."
consumer_secret = "..."
access_key = "..."
access_secret = "..."
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
user = tweepy.api.get_user('...')
print user.screen_name
print user.followers_count
when I run this in python, i get errors of bad authentication,
could someone please explain why this is?
Thanks

You create the api object with the authentication, but then you don't use it and call tweepy directly.
This line:
user = tweepy.api.get_user('...')
Should be:
user = api.get_user('...')