#1

Hi,

I am trying to write a python script that collects information on the web, processes and analyses the data and sends it out -once a day- as a Tweet. The tweet contain free stock photo’s, some general information about a country, region or city. (weather temp, bigmac index, flag e.g.)

When i check the guidelines on automation, i read the follwoing:

I. Ground Rules

Do!

  • Build solutions that automatically broadcast helpful information in Tweets

When I try and send a tweet using the tweepy library (with Levetated access), i get the following error:

403 Forbidden
226 - This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later.

So i don’t understand, yes I am trying to automate, yes i am building a solution to broadcast helpfull information in Tweets, but why should this be forbidden?

Anyone got an idea?

#2

Is the account you’re using to post in good standing, in other words, is it “restricted”? And is the email and phone verified, and is the “automation” label set? Introducing Automated Account Labeling

#3

Hi Igor,

Tried it on two ways seperatly:

  • me ‘managing’ the bot (setting up my personal account)
  • the bot ‘managed’ by me (setting up my bot account)

Both did not change a thing, still error 403?

#4

Yeah, unfortunately the only other way to get around the “This request looks like it might be automated” error is to tweet something different, without an image for example.

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#5

hashtags sometimes have an effect too

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