Hello,
I’ve recently started teaching myself how to program and connect to Twitter’s API using Python. I got my first Error: 420 message and I believe it was because I was connecting/disconnecting multiple times while testing and trying to make my code work.
Since I’m still a newbie, does anyone have any suggestions on how to prevent this? I don’t want to get blacklisted. The documentation that I found in dev.twitter.com gives best practices for code in a production environment, but nothing on what to do when testing code changes.
Is it possible to create the connection, then modify my code and re-run it, all while leaving the connection open? This is my code
import tweepy import time import json from HTMLParser import HTMLParserConsumer keys and access tokens, used for OAuth
consumer_key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’
consumer_secret = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’
access_token = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’
access_token_secret = ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’
OAuth process, using the keys and tokens
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
Creation of the actual interface, using authentication
api = tweepy.API(auth)
class StreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
def on_status(self, status):
print 'Ran on_status’
print status.text
if status.coordinates:
print ‘Coords:’, status.coordinates
if status.place:
print ‘Place:’, status.place.full_name
if status.name:
print ‘Name:’, status.user.name
return
def on_error(self, status_code):
print 'Error: ’ + repr(status_code)
return False
l = StreamListener()
streamer = tweepy.Stream(auth=auth, listener=l)
#setTerms = [‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘goodnight’, ‘good morning’]
setTerms = [‘twitter’]
streamer.filter(track = setTerms)
Any feedback would be appreciated.