Search function - limit rate & tweet replies

[crl-ick]

Hi,

Thank you for the amazing work! I have a couple of questions regarding the search function.

1. I'm trying to extract 1000 tweets, but no matter the search term and the value passed to total parameter, I only get 39 tweets returned in the dictionary. This is the code that I'm using:

from tweeterpy import TweeterPy
from tweeterpy.util import RateLimitError
from tweeterpy.util import find_nested_key

import itertools

import urllib3
urllib3.disable_warnings()

twitter = TweeterPy()
twitter.login("username","pass")
try:
    tweets = twitter.search('taylor swift', end_cursor=None, total=1000, pagination=True) 

except Exception as e:
    print(e)

x = find_nested_key(tweets,'full_text')
print(len(x))

2. Is it possible to filter out the retweets?
3. How to collect all the replies for each of the tweets containing the searched term? Is there a parameter providing this functionality or do we have to follow a two-step approach (i.e., collect tweets containing the search keyword, extract tweet id and get tweet replies for tweet id iteratively)?