title: how to get the full status text from twitter API with JSON?
body: <p><strong>tldr: how to access the FULL tweet body with JSON?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Hello</p>
  
  <p>I have a problem finding the full text of a tweet in JSON.</p>
  
  <p>I am making a python app with tweepy. I would like to take a status, and then access the text</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I used <a href="http://tweepy.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/api.html#API.user_timeline" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>user_timeline()</code></a> to get a <code>tweet_list</code>. Then got one tweet from them like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tweet=tweet_list[index]._json
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>now when I do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tweet['text']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it returns a shortened tweet with a link to the original</p>
  
  <p>eg:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unemployment for Black Americans is the lowest ever recorded. Trump
    approval ratings with Black Americans has doubl…
    (the shortened link, couldn't directly link due to stackoverflow rules)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I want to return this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unemployment for Black Americans is the lowest ever recorded. Trump
    approval ratings with Black Americans has doubled. Thank you, and it
    will get even (much) better! @FoxNews</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I don't mind if the link is added as long as the full tweet is shown</p>