Statuses/update_with_media error 189: please help!

[uber_nub]

Hi everyone! I need help with my code that tweets images. Please help me with this because I’ve run out of ideas.
The problem is that API returns a mysterious error that is not documented anywhere:

{"message":"Error creating status","code":189}

along with error code 403

I’ve googled a lot, but nothing helped.

Here is my code (I’m using tmhOauth library):

$code = $this->tmhOAuth->request('POST', $this->tmhOAuth->url('1.1/statuses/update_with_media'), array(
                    'status' => $tweet,
                    'media[]' => "@"."{$filename}",
                    true,
                    true //multipart and auth
                    )); 

What I’ve already tried without any success:

• put the file to the same directory and named it 1.png (to ensure that name is not too long), use file with 1kb size, give it 777 permissions. Ensured that fopen($filename) succeeds
• used deprecated API
• tried with raw image instead of file name “{”.$image."};type=image/png;filename={1.png}". Ensured that $image indeed contains raw data.
• ensured that statuses/update works fine

Here is my response. I’ve removed tokens from it:

    [params] => Array
        (
        )

    [headers] => Array
        (
            [Authorization] => OAuth oauth_consumer_key="some_key", oauth_nonce="some_key", oauth_signature="some_key", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="some_key", oauth_token="some_key", oauth_version="1.0"
            [Expect] => 
        )

    [auto_fixed_time] => 
    [buffer] => 
    [config] => Array
        (
            [user_agent] => tmhOAuth 0.621+SSL - //github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth
            [use_ssl] => 1
            [host] => api.twitter.com
            [force_nonce] => 
            [nonce] => some_string
            [force_timestamp] => 
            [timestamp] => 1357217282
            [oauth_version] => 1.0
            [oauth_signature_method] => HMAC-SHA1
            [curl_connecttimeout] => 30
            [curl_timeout] => 10
            [curl_ssl_verifyhost] => 2
            [curl_ssl_verifypeer] => 1
            [curl_cainfo] =>some_sert_file_that_indeed_exists
            [curl_capath] => some_sert_file_that_indeed_exists
            [curl_followlocation] => 
            [curl_proxy] => 
            [curl_proxyuserpwd] => 
            [curl_encoding] => 
            [is_streaming] => 
            [streaming_eol] => 

            [streaming_metrics_interval] => 60
            [as_header] => 1
            [debug] => 
            [multipart] => 
        )

    [method] => POST
    [url] => https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json
    [signing_params] => some_string

    [auth_header] => OAuth oauth_consumer_key="some_string", oauth_nonce="some_string", oauth_signature="some_string", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="some_string", oauth_token="some_string", oauth_version="1.0"
    [response] => Array
        (
            [headers] => Array
                (
                    [date] => Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:48:03 GMT
                    [status] => 403 Forbidden
                    [last_modified] => Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:48:03 GMT
                    [x_mediaratelimit_class] => photos
                    [expires] => Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
                    [pragma] => no-cache
                    [x_mid] => some_string
                    [x_mediaratelimit_limit] => 100
                    [content_type] => application/json; charset=utf-8
                    [x_runtime] => 0.14808
                    [x_transaction] => some_string
                    [x_frame_options] => SAMEORIGIN
                    [x_mediaratelimit_reset] => 1357303683
                    [set_cookie] => some_string; domain=.twitter.com; path=/; HttpOnly
                    [x_access_level] => read-write
                    [x_mediaratelimit_remaining] => 100
                    [cache_control] => no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0
                    [x_transaction_mask] => some_string
                    [server] => tfe
                    [content_encoding] => gzip
                    [content_length] => 82
                )

            [code] => 403
            [response] => {"errors":[{"message":"Error creating status","code":189}]}
            [info] => Array
                (
                    [url] => https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json
                    [content_type] => application/json; charset=utf-8
                    [http_code] => 403
                    [header_size] => 1498
                    [request_size] => 696
                    [filetime] => -1
                    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
                    [redirect_count] => 0
                    [total_time] => 0.961157
                    [namelookup_time] => 0.021136
                    [connect_time] => 0.203269
                    [pretransfer_time] => 0.578399
                    [size_upload] => 115
                    [size_download] => 82
                    [speed_download] => 85
                    [speed_upload] => 119
                    [download_content_length] => 82
                    [upload_content_length] => 0
                    [starttransfer_time] => 0.960736
                    [redirect_time] => 0
                    [certinfo] => Array
                        (
                        )

                    [request_header] => POST /1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: tmhOAuth 0.621+SSL - //github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth
Host: api.twitter.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Authorization: some_string, oauth_version="1.0"
Content-Length: 115
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded


                )

            [error] => 
            [errno] => 0
        )

)

[episod]

Are you able to upload & post a tweet with the same image successfully on twitter.com?

It looks like you might not be doing multipart correctly here, which might explain it. Your method invocation has the closing parenthesis in the wrong place I think.

Try adjusting your code a bit to something like this (might still need to adjust how you declare the media[] file):

$code = $this->tmhOAuth->request(‘POST’, $this->tmhOAuth->url(‘1.1/statuses/update_with_media’), array(
‘status’ => $tweet,
‘media[]’ => “@”."{$filename}"),
true,
true //multipart and auth
);


[Tatters1979]

Hi , does the code above work with TheMattHarris library when posting a status with the image? I’m currently using the php code to post images (from files) and it works fine however the ‘status’ is fixed to the ‘Picture Time’ comment as per the tutorial. I’ve got a simple form with the file select box for the images and a normal input box for the status. The photo/image is posted but the status in the input box is not? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tatters1979]

Form file select and input code are as follows with a submit button.

[bajajsahil]

this code is returning 0…any idea?

[episod]

HTTP 0 usually means your request isn’t leaving your machine… make sure that your SSL and network environment is setup correct.

[arvin_zetta]

pass a parameter likes below may works:
array(‘media[]’ => file_get_contents($image_url),‘status’ =>$status_sent)

[neo_sid]

Send the parameters as :

array(‘status’ => $status_message, ‘media[]’ => file_get_contents($image))


This will definitely help.