#coding: utf-8
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
import tweepy
import sys
import os
import io, json
from pprint import pprint
import time
import jsonpickle

auth = tweepy.AppAuthHandler('','')

api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

if (not api):
   print("problem connection to API")

api.rate_limit_status()['resources']['search']
searchQuery = 'place:08b2d74428e2ca88 "مرحبا" OR "السلام" '

maxTweets = 100 #1000000
searched_tweets = [status._json for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=searchQuery).items(maxTweets)]
json_strings = [json.dumps(json_obj, ensure_ascii=False) for json_obj in searched_tweets]
tweetCount = 0
with io.open ('SAUDI.json','w', encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
     for tweet in json_strings:
            json.dump(tweet, f, ensure_ascii= False)
            tweetCount += 1
print("Downloaded {0} tweets".format(tweetCount))