Hi,
i’m using the sandbox version of twitter premium api to crawl news articles posted on twitter for a university project.
As you know with this kind of access level i only have the possibility to gather 5000 tweets per month, so it’s crucial that i don’t waste any.
That said, i tried to gather the tweets between 2 dates, i did that successfully a few times in the last 2 months, but today, while trying to do the same thing, i may have requested more posts than the ones i could ask for.
Sincerly, i expected that this cases were correctly managed into the python official library, but instead of receiving only the tweets that i could gather, the program crashed with this message:
“HTTP Error code: 429: Request exceeds account’s current query limits. Please upgrade to the next package level and retry”
This wasted all the remaining available requests for this month (more than 2000) because the error occurred during the dispatch of the requests inside the api library, and nothing was saved.
What do i have to do to avoid something like this? Loosing 2000 potential article is a HUGE problem when i have only a couple of months available, do i have to specifuy something when calling the ResultStream function?
Thank you
