Get latest 3200 tweets of a user using tweepy

get_tweets.py

import tweepy
import sys
import os


cwd = os.getcwd()
this_dir = cwd + '/'
consumer_key ="redacted"
consumer_secret ="redacted"
access_token="redacted"
access_token_secret ="redacted"

def getTweets():
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    userID = sys.argv[1]
    
    fullpath = touchFile()
    output = open(fullpath, 'w', encoding='utf-8')

    for pages in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, screen_name=userID, count=3000).pages():                             
     num = 1 # init counter
     for tweet in pages:
         print('twid : ', tweet.id)               # Tweet ID
         output.write('twid : ' + str(tweet.id))
         output.write('\n')
         #print('user : ', tweet.user.screen_name)  # Tweet author
         print('date : ' + str(datetime_from_utc_to_local(tweet.created_at))[:-6]) # Time in your local timezone
         output.write('date : ' +  str(datetime_from_utc_to_local(tweet.created_at))[:-6])
         output.write('\n')
         print(tweet.text)                  # Content
         output.write(tweet.text)
         output.write('\n')
         #print('favo : ', tweet.favorite_count)  # Fav count
         #print('retw : ', tweet.retweet_count)  # RT count
         #print('counter : ', num) # tweet count
         num += 1 # Add 1 to counter

def touchFile():
    try:
        filename = str(sys.argv[1]) + ".txt"
    except IndexError:
        sys.exit("Please input the username of target user as argument")

    savepath = this_dir + 'tweets/'

    if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(savepath + filename)):
        try:
            os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(savepath + filename))
        except OSError:
            if errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise
                
    fullpath = savepath + filename 
    return fullpath


def datetime_from_utc_to_local(utc_datetime):
    import time 
    import datetime
    
    now_timestamp = time.time()
    offset = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(now_timestamp) - datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(now_timestamp)
    return utc_datetime + offset
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    getTweets()