#1

I’m getting some strange behaviour when testing the Standard Search API. I’ve set up Postman and can successfully get a response on every API, however when I try to query this example uri:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3Atwitterdev&result_type=mixed&count=2

I get the following response:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": 32,
            "message": "Could not authenticate you."
        }
    ]
}

What makes this even more odd is that if I remove the search operators I do get a response:
For example: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=twitterdev returns 15 tweets.

I’ve also created two separate apps and can verify that I get the same behaviour on both.

Could someone advise me on what the issue could be? I’ve searched through everything and am really lost. Thank you

#2

This one seems like it’s an issue with URL encoding : in the from:twitterdev query.

Most likely the OAuth signature base string https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/creating-a-signature.html

I don’t like using Postman for this kind of stuff because i’ve always had problems like this when getting it to work, but that’s just my personal gripe with it. I use twurl for tests

#3

Thanks for your reply IgorBrigadir. I’ve set up twurl, however I still can’t query the search api. I tried the example in the docs page (twurl /1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3Atwitterdev&result_type=mixed&count=2).

However I get:
parse error near '&'.

I also tried queries with other users. For example:
twurl /1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%40BillGates, results in:
no matches found: /1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%40BillGates

Other api queries e.g. twurl /1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json sends out correct json. I’m really confused.

#4

that might be the command line breaking up the command, try it with ""

twurl "/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from%3Atwitterdev&result_type=mixed&count=2"

That works for me

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#5

Thanks so much Igor! This did the trick indeed!

#6

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