Search users by description

[iHazzu]

Hello, I'm trying to build a query to search users through the search_users function. But this q parameter of the function seems to only support searching by username, since when I try to search for another field, I always get an empty list as response.

import tweepy
import keys

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(keys.CONSUMER_KEY, keys.CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(keys.ACCESS_TOKEN, keys.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

users = api.search_users(q="description=vampire", count=10)
print(users)

# []

This site has a Twitter account search tool by bio. Would this be possible through the API provided by Twitter?

[Harmon758]

GET users/search, the endpoint that API.search_users uses:

Provides a simple, relevance-based search interface to public user accounts on Twitter.

I believe this includes results based on descriptions. You'll have to filter them out yourself, as there are no other Twitter API endpoints to search for users.