Hey I’m doing an assignment for a class and we have to use the Twitter Rest API. I don’t why I keep getting the 401 error and when my professor runs it it works. Can anyone help? I’m tearing my hair out over here.
import sys
import time
from urllib2 import URLError
from httplib import BadStatusLine
from functools import partial
from sys import maxint
import json
import twitter
def oauth_login():
CONSUMER_KEY='***'
CONSUMER_SECRET='***'
OAUTH_TOKEN='***'
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET='***'
auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET,
CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
twitter_api = twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)
return twitter_api
def make_twitter_request(twitter_api_func, max_errors=10, *args, **kw):
def handle_twitter_http_error(e, wait_period=2, sleep_when_rate_limited=True):
if wait_period > 3600:
print >> sys.stderr, 'Too many retries. Quitting.'
raise e
if e.e.code ==401:
print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered 401 Error (Not Authorized)'
return None
elif e.e.code ==404:
print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered 404 Error (Not Found)'
return None
elif e.e.code ==429:
print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered 429 Error (Rate Limit Exceeded)'
if sleep_when_rate_limited:
print >> sys.stderr, "Retrying in 15 minutes...ZZZ..."
sys.stderr.flush()
time.sleep(60*15 + 5)
print sys.stderr, '...ZZZ...Awake now and trying again.'
return 2
else:
raise e
elif e.e.code in (500, 502, 503, 504):
print >> sys.stderr, 'Encountered %i Error . Retrying in %i seconds' %\
(e.e.code, wait_period)
time.sleep(wait_period)
wait_period *= 1.5
return wait_period
else:
raise e
wait_period = 2
error_count = 0
while True:
try:
return twitter_api_func(*args, **kw)
except twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError, e:
error_count = 0
wait_period = handle_twitter_http_error(e, wait_period)
if wait_period is None:
return
except URLError, e:
error_count += 1
print >> sys.stderr, "URLError encountered. Continuing."
if error_count > max_errors:
print >> sys.stderr, "Too many consecutive errors...bailing out."
raise
def get_user_profile(twitter_api, screen_names=None, user_ids=None):
assert (screen_names !=None) != (user_ids !=None),
“Must have screen_names or user_ids, but not both”
items_to_info = {}
items = screen_names or user_ids
while len(items) > 0:
items_str = ',' .join([str(item) for item in items[:100]])
items = items[100:]
if screen_names:
response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, screen_name=items_str)
else:
response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, user_id=items_str)
for user_info in response:
if screen_names:
items_to_info[user_info['screen_name']] = user_info
else:
items_to_info[user_info['id']] = user_info
return items_to_info
def get_friends_followers_ids(twitter_api, screen_name=None, user_id=None,
friends_limit=maxint, followers_limit=maxint):
assert(screen_name != None) != (user_id != None), \
"Must have screen_name or user_id but not both"
get_friends_ids = partial(make_twitter_request, twitter_api.friends.ids,
count=5000)
get_followers_ids = partial(make_twitter_request, twitter_api.followers.ids,
count=5000)
friends_ids, followers_ids = [], []
for twitter_api_func, limit, ids, label in [
[get_friends_ids, friends_limit, friends_ids, "friends"],
[get_followers_ids, followers_limit, followers_ids, "followers"]
]:
if limit == 0: continue
cursor = -1
while cursor != 0:
if screen_name:
response = twitter_api_func(screen_name=screen_name, cursor=cursor)
else:
response = twitter_api_func(user_id=user_id, cursor=cursor)
if response is not None:
ids += response['ids']
curosr = response['next_cursor']
print >> sys.stderr, 'Fetched {0} total {1} ids for {2}'.format(len(ids),
label, (user_id or screen_name))
if len(ids) >= limit or response is None:
break
return friends_ids[:friends_limit], followers_ids[:followers_limit]
#9.16 9.17 9.19 9.22
twitter_api=oauth_login()
response = make_twitter_request(twitter_api.users.lookup, screen_name=“max_herbowy”)
print json.dumps(response, indent=1)
print twitter_api
print get_user_profile(twitter_api, screen_names=[“max_herbowy”])
friends_ids, followers_ids = get_friends_followers_ids(twitter_api,
screen_name=“max_herbowy”,
friends_limit=10,
followers_limit=10)
print friends_ids
print followers_ids
