#1

So I was running the streamingclient today and then it disconnected with this Stream encountered HTTP error: 409. I used my second account (so different bearer token) to test what was wrong but still getting the error. How can I fix it?

this is my code

import tweepy
import sys
import os
import codecs
import re

BEARER_TOKEN=""

DATA_FILE= "streaming_data5.csv"
if not os.path.exists(DATA_FILE):
  os.mknod(DATA_FILE)

class BasicTwitterListener (tweepy.StreamingClient):
  def __init__(self, n_tweets):
    super().__init__(BEARER_TOKEN)
    self.n_tweets = n_tweets

def on_tweet(self, tweet):
    tweet.text =re.sub("[\r\n]+","", tweet.text) #print each tweet onto new line
    print(tweet.created_at, tweet.text, tweet.author_id)
    with codecs.open(DATA_FILE, "a") as f:
      f.write("%s||%s||%s\n" % (tweet.created_at, tweet.text, tweet.author_id)) 

listener = BasicTwitterListener(10)
listener.add_rules(tweepy.StreamRule('"breaking news" OR "latest news" OR  #breakingnews - AIRDROP n-is:retweet lang:en'))
listener.filter(expansions=["author_id"], tweet_fields=["created_at"])
#2

What is the full error message from the API? There should be a json object with the full error returned: Twitter API Response Codes & Error Support | Twitter Developer Platform 409 isn’t listed specifically but maybe it’s related to reconnecting multiple times with the same credentials? Sometimes when deploying something, 2 instances are actually launched, in different threads in workers for example, so it can happen without you knowing.

Separate to the 409 error, you have an ambiguous rule:

"breaking news" OR "latest news" OR  #breakingnews - AIRDROP n-is:retweet lang:en

For OR clauses, it’s best to use () parentheses to group the operators, otherwise you would get unexpected matches - as a space is an implicit AND. There in an extra space between - and AIRDROP too, not sure if that’s intentional.

Maybe more like:

'("breaking news" OR "latest news" OR  #breakingnews) -AIRDROP -is:retweet lang:en'
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