Doing a post here since this seems more active, but this issue has also been raised with Tweepy
I am receiving HTTP 401 errors while running through a script I created that reads the Twitter stream and retweets things that match the parameters I have set. It occasionally fails during the retweet section with:
tweepy.error.TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 401
I confirmed that the time is valid on the system and within the ~15 minute wiggle room. The code works the majority of the time, so I am not sure why it would throw the 401 status. Maybe a side question, but is there a more verbose error I can print? I know Twitter will return more information on why it threw 401 (such as unauthorized)
I snipped out some non-interesting parts, but here is the main part of the code:
def doRetweet(id_string):
# authenticate against the Twitter API
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# actually do the retweet
api.retweet(id_string)
print('I did the retweet')
print()
return
class StdOutListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
def on_data(self, data):
# Twitter returns data in JSON format - we need to decode it first
decoded = json.loads(data)
# grab some data we use later
tweet_id = decoded['id_str']
doRetweet(tweet_id)
return True
def on_error(self, status):
print('The below status code was returned from Twitter')
print(status)
if status_code == 420:
#returning False in on_data disconnects the stream
return False
def on_exception(self, exception):
raise exception
return False
try:
if __name__ == '__main__':
l = StdOutListener()
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
# Authenticate with the streaming API and filter what we initially receive
# spaces are AND operators, while a comma indicates OR. More info here: https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters
stream = tweepy.Stream(auth, l)
stream.filter(track=['#blah'], languages=['en'])
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit()
