Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error:

[nurandi]

Last month, I wrote R script for search twitter using twitteR package. That script worked fine.
Today, I execute the script again but get an error in check_twitter_oauth().

[1] "Using direct authentication"
Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error:
This most likely means that you have incorrectly called setup_twitter_oauth()'

Following this link #67 , I update httr package to the latest version (from CRAN). But, my problem can't be resolved.

This is info about my R session (after updated httr):
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252

[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C

[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12 bit64_0.9-4 bitops_1.0-6 DBI_0.3.1

[5] digest_0.6.4 httr_0.6.1 R6_2.0.1 RCurl_1.95-4.5
[9] rjson_0.2.15 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.2

Thank you for any advises :)

[denisefan28]

I encountered the same issue.
My R session info is

sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] httr_0.6.1.9000 twitteR_1.1.8

[completelyAbsorbed]

I am also encountering this issue. does anyone have a workaround?

[nurandi]

Update:
I did not do anything to resolve the problem, but this error was gone itself a week ago. I don't know why.

[completelyAbsorbed]

can you provide your code, please? Thank you

[nurandi]

Sure, here is my code. It works. Please supply your api and token.

library(twitteR)

setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

tw.bogor = searchTwitter("bogor", n=500)

Session Info:

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12    bit64_0.9-4   DBI_0.3.1     httr_0.6.1    rjson_0.2.15  stringr_0.6.2
[7] tools_3.1.2  

[completelyAbsorbed]

agh, it still does not work for me. here is my session info:

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8 devtools_1.7.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12 bit64_0.9-4 bitops_1.0-6 DBI_0.3.1 digest_0.6.8 httr_0.6.1 R6_2.0.1 RCurl_1.95-4.5 rjson_0.2.15 stringr_0.6.2
[11] tools_3.1.2

[completelyAbsorbed]

ok, I have figured it out. My Asus X-series laptop has a problem with CMOS battery, in which the date and time are usually out of sync. When I am in correct date/time, however, authentication works as expected. This is an issue with my system time, not R or OAuth, as far as I can tell.

[AlunHewinson]

Same error message here. I'm using a windows machine AND an Ubuntu virtual machine, and I have the same error message twice.

Here is the error message

api_key <- "abc123"
api_secret <- "abc123"
access_token <- "abc123"
access_token_secret <- "abc123"
setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error:
This most likely means that you have incorrectly called setup_twitter_oauth()'

Here is the session info from both:

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] httr_0.6.1     twitteR_1.1.8  devtools_1.7.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] bit_1.1-12     bit64_0.9-4    bitops_1.0-6   DBI_0.3.1      digest_0.6.8   R6_2.0.1       RCurl_1.95-4.5 rjson_0.2.15  
 [9] ROAuth_0.9.5   stringr_0.6.2  tools_3.1.2 

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=C            LC_COLLATE=C         LC_MONETARY=C       
 [6] LC_MESSAGES=C        LC_PAPER=C           LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C         LC_TELEPHONE=C      
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=C     LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8  httr_0.6.1     rjson_0.2.15   RCurl_1.95-4.5 bitops_1.0-6   ROAuth_0.9.5   devtools_1.7.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] DBI_0.3.1     R6_2.0.1      bit_1.1-12    bit64_0.9-4   digest_0.6.8  stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.2

[geoffjentry]

Hi all -

When you're having issues w/ OAuth, the authentication is happening from the httr package. The first thing to do is to try running the twitter auth demo:

https://github.com/hadley/httr/blob/master/demo/oauth1-twitter.r

[mingjerli]

Maybe this is the firewall issue. My company machine and my home machine have same session information, but only my home machine works.

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12    bit64_0.9-4   DBI_0.3.1     httr_0.6.1    rjson_0.2.15  stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.2  

[geoffjentry]

Hi - 99.9% of the time I see this come up it turns out to be a firewall issue. If that doesn't appear to be the case run Hadley's example. If that doesn't succeed you'll need to talk to him as all I'm doing is passing htrough to httr

[clutariomark]

Anyone who already fixed this?

[sooraj7m]

I'm running into the same issue without any resolution. The funny (or not) thing is that I run the exact same code on my Mac and it works, but on PC it won't. Can someone with a PC solution post their code? Below is my session info.

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8 httr_0.6.1   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] bit_1.1-12     bit64_0.9-4    bitops_1.0-6   DBI_0.3.1      digest_0.6.8   magrittr_1.5   R6_2.0.1       RCurl_1.95-4.6 rjson_0.2.15  
[10] stringi_0.4-1  stringr_1.0.0  tools_3.1.2   

[sdb2710]

Hello guys,

I am having the same problem as well. I have tried out the Hadley demo as well...nothing. Any ideas?
Session info:

[1] "Using direct authentication"
Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error:
This most likely means that you have incorrectly called setup_twitter_oauth()'

sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=om_KE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=om_KE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=om_KE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=om_KE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] httpuv_1.3.2 httr_0.6.1 sentiment_0.2 Rstem_0.4-1 tm_0.6-1
[6] NLP_0.1-7 ggplot2_1.0.1 plyr_1.8.2 wordcloud_2.5 RColorBrewer_1.1-2
[11] twitteR_1.1.8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.11.6 MASS_7.3-39 bit_1.1-12 munsell_0.4.2 colorspace_1.2-6 R6_2.0.1
[7] rjson_0.2.15 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.2.0 parallel_3.2.0 grid_3.2.0 gtable_0.1.2
[13] DBI_0.3.1 bit64_0.9-4 digest_0.6.4 reshape2_1.4.1 bitops_1.0-6 RCurl_1.95-4.6
[19] slam_0.1-32 scales_0.2.4 jsonlite_0.9.16 proto_0.3-10

[sdb2710]

Hello,

I regenerated api_key and api_secret. Everything else as is. I'm in.

[sooraj7m]

I found a solution too - it was simply a firewall issue. I turned the VPN to work off and I got in

[getmetorajesh]

Had the same issue. I had to set,

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://username:pass@proxy:port")
Sys.setenv(https_proxy="http://username:pass@proxy:port")

Twitter requires https, so "https_proxy" is a must and it all works fine behind the firewall.

[sooraj7m]

What proxy:port are you using?

[getmetorajesh]

@sooraj7m, you have to use your own network proxy settings. If you are on corporate network check with your SysAdmin.

[Dilip1991]

@geoffjentry Having Trouble in direct authentication , While Demo is working Fine with me. What to do ?

[aephidayatuloh]

I have same trouble with @Dilip1991, but the demo didn't work fine with me. Hours ago I updated the R version use installr package. Before I update it, I still can run the authentication as well. Any ideas?

This is my session info:

R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Indonesian_Indonesia.1252 LC_CTYPE=Indonesian_Indonesia.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Indonesian_Indonesia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Indonesian_Indonesia.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] twitteR_1.1.8 httr_1.0.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12 rjson_0.2.15 R6_2.0.1 magrittr_1.5 DBI_0.3.1
[6] tools_3.2.1 base64enc_0.1-2 curl_0.9 bit64_0.9-4 stringi_0.5-5
[11] digest_0.6.8 stringr_1.0.0

[Dilip1991]

@aephidayatuloh Hey Friend their is lots of issue I have read on Internet. In case of Demo , as far as I know , It is used to check whether your firewall/vpn issue is responsible for it or not(for authentication). (httr package is work as interface for twiiteR authentication). Even I don't know whats the exact issue is their with me as well . Yesterday I read gEOffjentry comment in which he mentioned if everything is working fine , Its better to wait for sometime , May be its a issue with package itself. Thanku.

[geoffjentry]

Hi all - see #90 - the issue is that httr changed and I haven't updated.

[wmueller7]

Here are the steps I took to solve the issue:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_version("httr", version="0.6.0", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")

I was able to install httr version 0.6, but the only way I don't get Error in check_twitter_oauth() is if I read packages in a certain order:

library(httr)
library(devtools)
library(twitteR)
setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

[datapresso]

Thanks wmuller7. Your approach also helped me solve my issue in ubuntu 14.04, R3.2.1.
My windows 7 installation of R3.2.1 didn't have the problem.

[raeed20]

Hi all,
i had the same issue in the begging.
i ran the following code
install.packages('base64enc')
and it worked
Regards

[alicivil82]

Thanks @raeed20! I tried your solution and worked fine for me.

[mrunalpagnis]

@raeed20 Thank you for the solution. I had the same issues. Your solution worked perfectly fine.

[GabuTheGreat]

Please someone post the code using @raeed20 method. Cause it's not working for me.

[raeed20]

Hi @GabuTheGreat
I only installed "base64enc"
as you would install any package.
If you tried to install it and didn't solve the problem, you may have got another problem.
Check @Peidyen solution

Best.

[GabuTheGreat]

It worked, Thank you

[maxsop]

Thanks @raeed20 . It worked for me!

[shantiswarup]

Thanks @raeed20 .. It worked

[lavsen25]

thanks @raeed20 it worked.

[cutekimimaru]

@raeed20 You save my life!!!

[Rifmaz]

Thanks @raeed20 for the answer! Worked perfectly!

[AlexPoma]

@raeed20 thanks...you save my life....(y)

[iamArunShankar]

Thank you @raeed20 for the solution. Installing 'base64enc' solved it smoothly :)

[mandywu]

@raeed20 it worked, thank you!

[gvozpaul]

@raeed20 Thank you, installing package "base64enc" solved issue.

[kimx3129]

@raeed20 Thanks a lot! It worked me :)

[Pratap5387]

use sdb2710 's suggestion
Hello,

I regenerated api_key and api_secret. Everything else as is. I'm in.

[Misterresearch]

Simple reset worked for me as well, although it was only the consumer key/secret that was actually reset. I added the callback URL under the old creds, but I think then performing the reset did the trick...

[suprematis]

Great find @Pratap5387. I spent almost 2 hours trying to authenticate, your tip did the trick. I believe that due to changes that twitter has implemented many people are having issues with authentication in R.

Here is my console output code and it is working as of today:

> consumerKey <- "Consumer Key (API Key)"
> consumerSecret <- "Consumer Secret (API Secret)"
> accessToken <- "Access Token"
> accessTokenSecret <- "Access Token Secret"
> setup_twitter_oauth(consumerKey, consumerSecret, accessToken, accessTokenSecret)
[1] "Using direct authentication"
> searchTwitter("iphone")

[dhmuskie]

I am having this same issue, and I have tried the following, to no avail:

regenerated consumer key & secret
installed base64enc
installed httpuv
updated httr (1.2.1)

This is quite frustrating :/

[geoffjentry]

Hi @MisbahAyoub - just a note that this package has long since been deprecated in favor of the package rtweet. I suggest you try using that instead.

[geoffjentry]

You need to ask the author of rtweet

[JeongHansol]

Hi, @MisbahAyoub I am fed up with this issue and made every attempt to solve this error. (such as installing rtweet, base64enc, devtools package)
Try to regenerate your tweet consumer key, key secret, access token, access token secret.
It worked throuth this method in my case.

[zikoalexis]

@raeed20 thank youu for the solution !!

[growlkid]

@Pratap5387 thank you so much! working fine! :)

[ramab9]

Hi raeed,
I tried, but it didn't work for me.
install.packages("base64enc", dependencies = T)
library(base64enc)

looks like it is a firewall issue. it worked for me on my home computer without any error . but from office machine it's not working. Can you please give me best solution to fix this issue ?

[ghost]

regenerating all the access tokens fixed it for me.

[nadeemkhan786]

OAuth has not been registered for this session
how solve thiss error in shiny app

[1kishoreKulkarni]

This post seems to be old but the issue is still valid. I am getting same error:
Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error:
This most likely means that you have incorrectly called setup_twitter_oauth()'

R Code:

Libraries

library(twitteR)
library(ROAuth)

Set API Keys

api_key <- "Key"
api_secret <- "Key"

access_token <- "Key"
access_token_secret <- "Key"

setup_twitter_oauth(api_key, api_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

How to solve this error? ty.

[nadeemkhan786]

hii. yes where is your cerd file (apply cred file) and one more think your internet must be fast

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[1kishoreKulkarni]

cerd file

What is cerd file in Rstudio?

[LinaYorda]

I would assume that you have already solved your problem, but in case you haven't I would advise you to follow all the instructions so far and also get yourself new Keys and tokens and try again. It worked with me, perfectly well.

[PankajVerma123]

i have also same error please help me to get out of it
library(twitteR)
library(ROAuth)
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
library(ggplot2)
library(httr)
library(wordcloud)
library(SentimentAnalysis)
library(RCurl)
library(plyr)
library(SnowballC)
library(tm)
library(RColorBrewer)
library(topicmodels)
library(data.table)
library(stringr)
library(base64enc)
library(httpuv)
library(httr)

Step 1: Establish twitter api connection through R

#To establish connection to twitter API, we'll use OAuthFactory function and twitter Application credentials.
#Once creating a new conncection we can save the credentials in a file and just load the credentials file whenever we need a
#connection to twitter instead of running all the code. I've downloaded the tweets and saved in a csv file and loaded the file for analysis. Code to extract the tweets is given below with in comments, ofcourse with masked credentials.

Code for connecting to Twitter API

oauth_endpoint(authorize = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth',
access = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token')

##Connect to API

##Connection strings

download.file(url = 'http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem', destfile = 'cacert.pem')
reqURL = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token'
accessURL = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token'
authURL = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize'

##Twitter Application credentials
consumerKey = '3GcJah1mIIDPD6c4uIW08L8YU'
consumerSecret = 'uevNdolvKfdCcG779UpiiD2wHTmP86kAUMqH7I9cjRuA3iJ35r'
accessToken ='869394410-vZb0G5EjJVF9STyLvVDotknPchwhcZ63zftWYyJe'
accessTokenSecret = 'Ea3kWs4UCTqdNrWA76Wzall5MV2xRorrwlE8DYsc4ul5w'

Cred = OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey = consumerKey,
consumerSecret = consumerSecret,
requestURL = reqURL,
accessURL = accessURL,
authURL = authURL)

Cred$handshake(cainfo = system.file('CurlSSL', 'cacert.pem', package = 'RCurl'))

save(Cred, file = 'twitter_authentication.Rdata')
load('twitter_authentication.Rdata')

##Twitter setup

setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key = consumerKey, consumer_secret = consumerSecret,
access_token = accessToken, access_secret = accessTokenSecret)