Impossible to specify No expansions at all in CLI.

[igorbrigadir]

I just noticed the CLI won't actually allow you to specify no expansions - sometimes this is desirable, at a minimum, you must specify at least 1 expansion, otherwise the default is applied, which is all expansions.

This won't work to get a minimal representation:

twarc2 tweet 1404396331897085955 --expansions "" --tweet-fields "id,text" | jq

You need to specify at least 1, usually the geo one works well because it's rare:

twarc2 tweet 1404396331897085955 --expansions "geo.place_id" --tweet-fields "id,text" | jq

Also, this tweet example also automatically returns withheld fields, which are not documented as "default" fields that are always returned like id and text, but seem to behave that way.

Personally, I think this is more of a usability edge case thing that may be "fixed" with documentation rather than implementing this in code. But just here for reference.