query.py: URL encode colon

Fixes #17
taspinar · Dec 20, 2016 · 1df8cb5 · 1df8cb5
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diff --git a/twitterscraper/query.py b/twitterscraper/query.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def query_tweets_once(query, limit=None, num_tweets=0):
                   ``limit`` number of items.
     """
     logging.info("Querying {}".format(query))
-    query = query.replace(' ', '%20').replace("#", "%23")
+    query = query.replace(' ', '%20').replace("#", "%23").replace(":", "%3A")
     pos = None
     tweets = []
     try: