Apologies if I am asking this in the wrong place but I am looking for a helping hand in upgrading a couple of python scripts to use the new Twitter API v1.1. The scripts that I have are working with v1 but they were developed by someone else that is no longer able to work on them because they are unwell.

In a nutshell what the scripts are designed to do is connect to https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json and check for tweets sent to specific @usernames, retrieve the tweet data and insert them into a MySQL database. Afterwards another script does some post-processing to move desired data into other tables and then clean up. There are a couple of other non-Twitter scripts that do some general MySQL housekeeping for stats etc.

I am sure this is quite trivial for some people but I'm stumbling around in the dark because I can't find a working example of doing something similar that uses v1.1. What I need to do is go through the scripts and replace the old JSON syntax with the new one.

For example v1... messagelog = "tweet_id=%s:screen_name=%s:time_created=%s in twitter stream (tweet.py)" % (content['id_str'],content['user']['screen_name'],msgtime)

The scripts are only needed to fetch public tweets. I don't have to worry about any user logins or authentication issues. The original author has created a working method that ensures the scripts don't make too many API connections. Everything works fine and dandy in API v1 but needs minor tweaks for v1.1.

Please point me towards somewhere else to ask for help if this is the wrong place. I've already tried dev-twitter. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Thank you.

regards James (QuotesUK)

byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter/_file_cache.py to _file_cache.cpython-34.pyc
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter/_file_cache.py", line 65
    except (AttributeError, IOError, OSError), e:
                                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter/api.py", line 770
    print 'request_url', request_url, parameters
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter/__init__.py to __init__.cpython-34.pyc
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/twitter/__init__.py", line 36
    raise ImportError, "Unable to load a json library"
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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for the first error we should have

    except (AttributeError, IOError, OSError) as e:

this instruction is not python 2.5 compatible ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2535760/python-try-except-comma-vs-as-in-except )

for the seconde we should have

    print ('request_url', request_url, parameters)

to keep compatibility with python < 3 you could use

from __future__ import (print_function)

for the last it should be

    raise ImportError("Unable to load a json library")

Added Google's monkeypatch so requests will use the appengine urlfetch library. Disabled caching for now because app engine does not work with the existing strategy.

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>>> for line in twitter_api.GetStreamFilter(locations=["2.1,41.1,2.3,41.5"]):
...     Print line
... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/simon/Nightyspace/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4430, in GetStreamFilter
    data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(line.decode('utf-8'))
  File "/Users/simon/Nightyspace/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4696, in _ParseAndCheckTwitter
    raise TwitterError({'message': "json decoding"})
twitter.error.TwitterError: {'message': 'json decoding'}
>>> 

How can I debug this ?

Not sure why, when or how this started happening, but if I just do self.twitter = twitter.Api() my code has a bad time:

  File "/var/cron/stats/reach.py", line 30, in __init__
    self.twitter = twitter.Api()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter.py", line 2350, in __init__
    self.SetCredentials(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token_key, access_token_secret)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter.py", line 2382, in SetCredentials
    self._config = self.GetHelpConfiguration()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter.py", line 2386, in GetHelpConfiguration
    json = self._RequestUrl(url, 'GET')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter.py", line 4974, in _RequestUrl
    auth=self.__auth,
AttributeError: 'Api' object has no attribute '_Api__auth'

But if I use twitter.Api with named params then it's all good:

        api = twitter.Api(
            consumer_key=self.config['twitter']['consumer_key'],
            consumer_secret=self.config['twitter']['consumer_secret'],
            access_token_key=post['oauth_token'],
            access_token_secret=post['oauth_token_secret']
        )

The first example was taken from your readme, so it should work.

Ideas?

I updated to the new python-twitter and I even changed my developer keys for the app I made and I still get the same error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./twitterdirectmessage.py", line 3, in import twitter File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter.py", line 40, in import requests ImportError: No module named requests

My application has worked for many months so far without problems except for the recent update. At the beginning of my script I've tried two different options: #!/usr/bin/python2 or

!/usr/bin/env python2

Both return the same error. I can't find out where the error is coming from. Any help would be much appreciated.

With the change in how rate limiting works, is there any way to pull a user's entire friendlist if it's a very large list?

e.g. friendz = api.GetFriends(screen_name='podcast411')

will throw "[{u'message': u'Rate limit exceeded', u'code': 88}]" without resolving (i.e., friendz will remain undefined)

Can we page through the list from GetFriends(), add (e.g. the .names) to a dictionary or list, and tell Python to sleep for 15 minutes when we hit the rate limit?

Some of this obviously needs to be handled in the app's/user's code, but it feels like something is missing from the Python Twitter def (or that I'm missing something).

I tidied up bryanlandia@ b6a427a a little, notably to remove the requirement to provide an access token when using application-only authentication. Also changed (removed) exception trapping, to make the changes consistent with existing code.

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Are there any plans to support app-only auth? I noticed the lib explicitly throws an error if you don't provide the access key and secret when instantiating, suggesting that Twitter requires this on all API calls, but it seems this may not be the case?

https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only

I initialized with sleep_on_rate_limit set to true, like this: api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = CONSUMER_KEY, consumer_secret=CONSUMER_SECRET, access_token_key=ACCESS_TOKEN, access_token_secret=ACCESS_SECRET, sleep_on_rate_limit=True) I have a long list of users I am iterating through, and I'm getting their tweets from the last week using the GetSearch command: results = api.GetSearch(term="from:"+user, since_id=sincetweet, max_id=maxtweet, count=10, result_type="recent") I was expecting my program to sleep while waiting for Twitter's rate limit to refresh, but it instead pauses for a few minutes and then throws a "Rate limit exceeded" code: 88 error, like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../collect_user_tweets.py", line 45, in result_type="recent") File ".../venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 424, in GetSearch data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(resp.content.decode('utf-8')) File ".../venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4688, in _ParseAndCheckTwitter self._CheckForTwitterError(data) File ".../venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4715, in _CheckForTwitterError raise TwitterError(data['errors']) twitter.error.TwitterError: [{'message': 'Rate limit exceeded', 'code': 88}] Any ideas?

Hi all,

I have a script to identify certain tweet (script from issue https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/issues/395 )

The script works well to identify the Tweets but i have trouble with retweeting/following the person whi posted these tweets

The piece of code (i didn't put the credentials/identification to API etc..) :

results = api.GetSearch(raw_query="q=rt%20follow%20gagner%20lang%3Afr")
    
#Parsing JSON

for elt in results:
    id_tweet = elt.id_str
    screenname = elt.user.screen_name
    print(id_tweet)
    print(screenname)
    #retweet+follow
    twitter.api.Api.PostRetweet(id_tweet, trim_user=True)
    print("retweet : ",id_tweet)
    twitter.api.Api.CreateFriendship(screen_name=screenname)
    print("Follow: ",screen_name)
    #pause
    time.sleep(15)
print("Successful script!")
os.system("PAUSE")

I have the error "TypeError: PostRetweet() missing 1 required positional argument: 'status_id'" with the line of retweet and the error "TypeError: CreateFriendship() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'" with the line of following .

I think i have missed something in the documentation but i don't see what.

Thanks i advance for your help ;)

⬇️ https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/twitter.html is empty (high-level titles only):

• it is the landing page when looking for the documentation
• one has to select v: stable to get useful documentation on the API

❓Should the default landing page be v: stable instead of v: latest, in order to be more user-friendly?

Updated URL endpoints, changed DestroyDirectMessage to a DELETE request rather than POST and changed the DirectMessage model to support the new Twitter format.

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Whereas the last commit in this repo was just a month ago, the latest release at PyPI is from 2018. When will a new release published on PyPi?

Best Pascua