[bug] Client.get_users_tweets() exclude=replies but returned reference_tweets.type=replied_to

[ranggakd]

well from today and now on I expect a lot of changes in Twitter API v2, but is there any explanation for this?

my code is as follows:

import tweepy as tw
import configparser.ConfigParser(interpolation=None)
config.read(CONFIG)
bearer_token = config['twitter']['bearer_token']
client = tw.client(bearer_token=bearer_token)

problem start here

test = client.get_users_tweets(735358344106549248,
                        exclude='replies',
                        max_results=5,
                        tweet_fields=['public_metrics','created_at'],
                        expansions='referenced_tweets.id.author_id')
for t in test.data:
    if getattr(t, 'referenced_tweets'):
        print(t.referenced_tweets[0].type)

it returns

replied_to
quoted
quoted

I expected replied_to would never be returned since it was exclude by the func parameter

[Harmon758]

This is a bug with Twitter's API where using exclude=replies with the GET /2/users/:id/tweets endpoint doesn't exclude replies to the user's own Tweets.

I was made aware of the bug through a support post in the Tweepy Discord server and reported the bug to Twitter back in November. The developer advocate I reported it to said they confirmed the bug and reported it, but they no longer work there now, so I don't really have a means to follow up on it.

[ranggakd]

thank you for clarifying the issue 👍