New Direct Message endpoint needs to be implemented

[melikyuksel]

Twitter deprecated the old direct message endpoints on September 17, 2018 (3 days ago) after warning about it in July. (see this link: https://twittercommunity.com/t/details-and-what-to-expect-from-the-api-deprecations-this-week-on-august-16-2018/110746)

Does Python Twitter yet support the new endpoints for it? (https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/direct-messages/sending-and-receiving/guides/direct-message-migration)

Using the PostDirectMessage function right now results in "Sorry, that page does not exist." error 34 from Twitter.

[webtweakers]

I'm having the same issue, found the same cause, was looking for the same reason...

[at0m1sk]

#579

There is a pull request that seems to integrate new endpoint. Request is from Aug 2018.

[spacecab07]

Any idea on when this might get resolved?

[jmingtan]

Yes the version in the pull request is working for us. There are breaking changes to the function though, which is forced by Twitter's changes in the new direct message endpoint. Probably the biggest change is that screen name is no longer supported as a parameter, so we need to call api.GetUser first to get the user id.

[ganmedia]

Any news about this? When will the pull request be integrated?

[bear]

i'll look at this now

[jeremylow]

added everything and fixed up the tests, changed the docs a few hours ago to the 4.0 dev branch. sorry, been out of commission lately :( Jeremy Low JeremyLow@gmail.com

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[bear]

@jeremylow do you want me to merge this to the master and bump the version to 3.6 since it's fixing a broken twitter?

[jeremylow]

I was thinking a major version bump, since we have to deprecate a bunch of endpoints, but I can do 3.6 too. I'm not married to either option.

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[bear]

@jeremylow I think I can make the method signature stay the same to reduce the impact - if screen_name is nil then make the call, if not use it

ok, i'll merge the PR and see if that fixes things

[bear]

I think I have it working and i've tagged a pre-release for v3.5

Can you all give this a go and see if it works - i'll hold off pushing this to PyPI until someone sanity checks it

[webtweakers]

Thanks for picking this up. I've checked the v3.5 release and now things work again, as expected! Looking good from my side.

[ganmedia]

Version 3.5 checked and everything working with no problems.
Great job.

[jeremylow]

Good to go from me!

[kennethdamica]

PostDirectMessage works for me now, but I'm still getting error 34 for GetDirectMessages and GetSentDirectMessages. Looks like these endpoints have been collapsed into "GET direct_messages/events/list". Is this supposed to work in 3.5?

[spacecab07]

Sorry if this is a noob question. So, i need the user_id of the recipient of the DM?

[jeremylow]

@spacecab07 if you don’t supply it, the api will attempt to look up the user id from the screen name.

[spacecab07]

@jeremylow so should be ok to leave as 'user_id=None, screen_name=twitter_handle' ?

[webtweakers]

@spacecab07 Yes, I have already confirmed that this works well - also check the code change. The API needs to make an extra call to Twitter now, so it is probably wise to retrieve and store the user_id in your own application once and use that at every DM post.

[spacecab07]

@webtweakers ok, thanks .

[at0m1sk]

PostDirectMessage works for me now, but I'm still getting error 34 for GetDirectMessages and GetSentDirectMessages. Looks like these endpoints have been collapsed into "GET direct_messages/events/list". Is this supposed to work in 3.5?

Same here, I am at 3.5 can't GET , error 34 for GetDM and GetSentDM

[MHlinux]

Have the same PostDirectMessage issue and still do not get it done
api.PostDirectMessage(directmsg, user_id="xxx")
api.PostDirectMessage(directmsg, screen_name="xxx")

But all other works fine like
api.GetFriends(screen_name="xxx")
api.GetFriends(user_id="xxx")

So what else do I have to do in addition for direct mesages ???

Update:
Fix is not official released thus pip install does not work !
Download and install from local file system - now it's working again :-)
Many Thanks !!!

[LuccoJ]

Could this please be made a priority for pushing a release to Pypi? Currently, according to what I've been able to figure out, there is no Twitter wrapper in Pypi that actually supports direct messages. I assume there's a number of applications that are badly broken by this and not just mine.

[Artfulme]

Hi, backing up @LuccoJ on this one, you're just one signature way from releasing the working code to pypi. Don't want to be pushy either, I have much respect for all the work you guys put in to maintain the code, but I have been following this thread since its inception and working direct messages can't come soon enough.

[jeremylow]

My apologies y'all; been a draining couple weeks. I thought the release had been uploaded to PyPI. I'll take care of it this weekend.

[jeremylow]

3.5 is now on pypi.

[Artfulme]

Thanks!