Get followers ID's raised Rate Limited exceeded with sleep on wait limit

[zrothberg]

I am using the pip version but the code in my stacktrace does not appear to have changed since then. It appears as if a simple sleep on the error would have fixed the problem but I was under the impression it was already doing that. The program was running for 6-12 hours before it crashed. I do not know if this is a bug or If there is a way to handle the error and have it resume easily.

	api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=Consumer_key, consumer_secret=Consumer_secret,
	                  access_token_key=Access_token, access_token_secret=Access_token_secret,
	                  sleep_on_rate_limit=True)
	accounts = ["JakeWarden","Zendaya"]


	def profilenewaccounts(accountlist):
	    for item in accountlist:
	        data = api.GetFollowerIDs(screen_name=item)

	        with open(item+".txt", 'w') as f:
	            for s in data:
	                f.write(str(s) + '\n')

	        print(item +"  done")


	profilenewaccounts(accounts)

and here is the stack trace

  JakeWarden  done
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/Users/zacharyrothberg/PycharmProjects/twitterbotffs/MainBot.py", line 34, in <module>
      profilenewaccounts(accounts)
    File "/Users/zacharyrothberg/PycharmProjects/twitterbotffs/MainBot.py", line 25, in profilenewaccounts
      data = api.GetFollowerIDs(screen_name=item)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 2464, in GetFollowerIDs
      total_count=total_count)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 2412, in _GetFriendFollowerIDs
      count=count)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 2290, in _GetIDsPaged
      data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(resp.content.decode('utf-8'))
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4894, in _ParseAndCheckTwitter
      self._CheckForTwitterError(data)
    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 4914, in _CheckForTwitterError
      raise TwitterError(data['errors'])
  twitter.error.TwitterError: [{'message': 'Rate limit exceeded', 'code': 88}]

[jeremylow]

This is usually something going on with Twitter and their edge servers returning inconsistent rate limits. See issue #350 . We try as best we can, but I'd suggest a try: / except block around your function if this is going to be a long-running operation.

[zrothberg]

And I assume use the page driven call instead of the getfollowerids one.