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 HTMLParser
Consumer 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.
