title: How can I get tweets older than a week (using tweepy or other python libraries)
body: <p>I have been trying to figure this out but this is a really frustrating. I'm trying to get tweets with a certain hashtag (a great amount of tweets) using Tweepy. But this doesn't go back more than one week. I need to go back at least two years for a period of a couple of months. Is this even possible, if so how?</p>
  
  <p>Just for the check here is my code</p>
  
  <pre><code>import tweepy
  import csv
  
  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)
  
  # Open/Create a file to append data
  csvFile = open('tweets.csv', 'a')
  #Use csv Writer
  csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)
  
  
  for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q="#ps4",count=100,\
                             lang="en",\
                             since_id=2014-06-12).items():
      print tweet.created_at, tweet.text
      csvWriter.writerow([tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode('utf-8')])
  </code></pre>