Activity API webhook event payload empty

[photografista]

Hi,
I’m testing my first app on the new activity api. So far I successfully registered a webhook and set up a subscription but the incoming events on my webhook url are empty.

Result of GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/my_env/webhooks.json

[
    {
        "id": "1001542683893133318",
        "url": "https://mywebhookurl.com/index.php",
        "valid": true,
        "created_timestamp": "2018-05-29 19:16:00 +0000"
    }
]

Result of GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/my_env/subscriptions/list.json

{
    "environment": "my_env",
    "application_id": "15281019",
    "subscriptions": [
        {
            "user_id": "a_user_id"
        }
    ]
}

Results of incoming events on https://mywebhookurl.com/index.php (sending print_r($_REQUEST, true) via mail)

Array()

When sending a POST request via Postman to my webhook url all payload is received which shows that my server is able to receive and process POST parameters.
Currently the subscribed user is the owner of the app (if this matters).

Am I missing something?

I already deleted the webhook and re-registered it and re-added the subscription but same result.
After 4 days of reading, testing and what not I desperately asking for some help.
Thanks in advance!

[photografista]

@andypiper ?
sorry for pushing this but I’m really stuck.

[happycamper]

@photografista Pipes isn’t the only one that can help on this community forum. Can you clarify what you mean by ‘empty events’?

Can you confirm that you’ve added a new subscription for your authenticated account using this POST call (https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/:env_name/subscriptions.json)
and check that your user ID is returned for this GET call (https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/my_env/subscriptions/list.json)?

Can you confirm that @photografista has created Tweets that would be returned in Account Activity API? Note that Tweets from your home timeline does not get sent in Account Activity API, only activities around your account actions and replies to your owned Tweets etc described here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/overview

If there’s anything you can do to simplify your code/test to eliminate php code errors I’d recommend it, additionally, check out the Account Activity Dashboard testing tool here: https://github.com/twitterdev/account-activity-dashboard

[photografista]

Sorry I just saw that he’s very active and hoped for help. Thank you for responding.

By ‘empty events’ I mean that no POST data is received. The Array $_POST - which should contain all received data - is an empty array (I also tested $_REQUEST which should contain all payload for all types of requests). As stated above I did check with Postman by sending manual POST requests with payload to my webhook URL and the received POST array is not empty (this also shows that there are no PHP errors).

I can confirm that a adding a subscription was successful. GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/my_env/subscriptions/list.json returns the ID of the added account (this confirms it right?)

I also can confirm that the added account did some actions which results in events. I get notified (sending an email + writing to a database) that my webhook url is called (about 30 times a minute).

I have two assumptions:

1. The Twitter API is not sending any payload
2. The account is subscribed but there are no events specified which should be sent to the webhook url

Either way, I have no clue what to do.
I’ll check the Dashboard Tool tomorrow.
Thanks for your help!

[photografista]

Dashboard tool shows my webhook and the subscribed user. I wasn’t able to register my ngrok tunneled webhook du to latency so I couldn’t use the tools eventy display.
But it seems like the setup is ok.

[photografista]

@happycamper https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/api-reference/aaa-premium#post-account-activity-all-env-name-subscriptions says I should send a “whitelisted consumer key”.
How do I get my consumer key whitelisted?
My dev account was approved when I applied for access for the new activity API in case this has something to do with getting whitelisted.

I still get empty payloads on event webhook triggers

[andypiper]

If you’ve got a dev account and access to the Dashboard, with an Account Activity API environment created, then the app associated with that environment is whitelisted and that consumer key should work fine.

I had an issue working in Python last week, and found that I needed to manually delete my account subscription using Postman, and re-subscribe from code, in order for the webhook events to start arriving.

How do you know that events are incoming? Are you able to trace out any of the HTTP request (headers and bodies?)

[photografista]

Thanks for helping out.
Environment was successfully created.
I added the subscription both via Postman and from code. Subscriptions is added and valid (verified with twitter dashboard: https://github.com/twitterdev/account-activity-dashboard)
I set up my webhook php file to send me an email, when the url is called. I included an array dump of $_REQUEST (all POST, GET, … parameters) in the mail body. I received multiple emails but the body was always empty (Array() ).
As described above, I tested the same script using postman triggering my webhook url. I received emails too, but this time the body was not empty. So my script works.
I’ll test dumping the request headers right now.

[photografista]

This is the output of the received http headers:

Array
(
   [X-B3-Traceid] => 0f9ec9f1e6fe0393
   [X-B3-Parentspanid] => 0f9ec9f1e6fe0393
   [X-Twitter-Webhooks-Signature] => sha256=PbdUNaDM66G7fVHXPMIfM8OJ0oy4+oIhzjFwnv9csPQ=
   [Host] => myhost.com
   [X-B3-Flags] => 2
   [X-B3-Sampled] => false
   [Finagle-Http-Retryable-Request] => 
   [X-B3-Spanid] => a79a6286e47c56b3
)

[photografista]

I just tried to add another subscription/user and the result was:
Code 261: Application cannot perform write actions. Contact Twitter Platform Operations through https://help.twitter.com/forms/platform.

Hm, thats new. I filled out the form and sent it, lets see what happens. Maybe I got blocked because of too many trial and error?

[MarcosRedondo]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem as you @photografista. I would really appreciate it if you can explain to me how you solved it.
A greeting!

[MarcosRedondo]

For those who have the doubt, I already solved it:
Change print_r($_REQUEST, true) to print_r(file_get_contents(‘php://input’), true)

[LeBraat]

@photografista - You can learn more about the error message that you are experiencing in this post:

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[andypiper]