I am encountering the following error when using a Tweepy script:
File "C:\Users\Christian\Dropbox\Twitter\Scrape Candidate Tweets.py", line 34, in <module>
for status in limit_handled(tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, id = user).items()):
File "C:\Users\Christian\Dropbox\Twitter\Scrape Candidate Tweets.py", line 8, in limit_handled
yield cursor.next()
File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py", line 197, in next
self.current_page = self.page_iterator.next()
File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py", line 108, in next
data = self.method(max_id=self.max_id, parser=RawParser(), *self.args, **self.kargs)
File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 245, in _call
return method.execute()
File "c:\python34\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 229, in execute
raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
tweepy.error.TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 500
It says in the error codes to report any 500’s, so here I am. An almost identical script was working fine yesterday and no longer works. Thanks in advance for any guidance on this one!
Here is the script I am using:
import tweepy
import re
import time
def limit_handled(cursor):
while True:
try:
yield cursor.next()
except tweepy.RateLimitError:
print("Rate limited. Waiting 15 minutes.")
time.sleep(15 * 60)
tokenf = open("C:\\Users\\Christian\\Dropbox\\Twitter\\Access Tokens.txt", 'r')
# Get access tokens
consumer_key = tokenf.readline()
consumer_secret = re.sub('\n', '', tokenf.readline())
access_token = re.sub('\n', '', tokenf.readline())
access_token_secret = tokenf.readline()
tokenf.close()
# Authenticate
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Get user names
userf = open("C:\\Users\\Christian\\Dropbox\\Twitter\\Candidate Usernames.txt", 'r')
usernames = [re.sub('\n', '', x) for x in userf.readlines()]
# Pull statuses which are not retweets
statuses = {}
for user in usernames:
print(user)
statuses[user] = []
for status in limit_handled(tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, id = user).items()):
if not hasattr(status, 'retweeted_status'):
statuses[user].append([status.user, status.created_at, status.text])
