Twitter Stream API + OAuth not working

[kuzeko]

I've used the code some months ago, with the streaming API and the OAuth method and it worked.

Today I tried again and I'm getting a

HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

passing through

 stream.py", line 52, in handle_stream_response

and originating in

 urllib2.py, line 521, in http_error_default

The same OAuth works fine with other methods: I tried both
statuses.home_timeline()
and
direct_messages.new()

[pykler]

try doing a

twitter_client.account.verify_credentials()

And see if you oauth keys are still available.

[kuzeko]

the verify method gave

HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

again

I successfully read the home timeline and sent a direct message, isn't that a sign of the validity of the OAuth keys?

[pykler]

are you using the verify method on api.twitter.com or stream.twitter.com, you should change the domain to api.twitter.com when testing the verify method.

[pykler]

Yes that is true, if you have sent tweets then your oauth is working. That error is comming straight from twitter though so it seems like a temporary issue on their end.

[kuzeko]

Point is that if I use the normal UserPassAuth it works...

[sixohsix]

Hi,

Did you recently upgrade to PTT 1.9.2? The default API version for the streaming class changed to '1.1'. Is it possible that the command you are running is no longer available in the 1.1 API? You can pass version='1' to the TwitterStream constructor to get back the old behaviour (so long as Twitter continues to support that version).

In API 1.1 I don't think there is a home timeline, in fact. The correct call is now:

TwitterStream(domain='userstream.twitter.com', auth=OAuth(...)).user()

See: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/user

[kuzeko]

Hi,
yes I've upgraded to the latest version.
I'm trying this one

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

This is the code that gives the error

twitter_stream = TwitterStream(domain='stream.twitter.com', auth=OAuth( oauth_token, oauth_secret,CONSUMER_KEY,  CONSUMER_SECRET))
iterator = twitter_stream.statuses.sample()

[sixohsix]

Okay, thanks for the info. I just tested this exact code and it worked for me. I was able to iterate tweets from the sample stream with PTT 1.9.2, Python 2.7.

Are the consumer token and secrets the same ones you authorized with originally? Even if so, maybe try doing the oauth_dance again to get new oauth creds.

If you are still having trouble, please let me know what OS and Python version you are using.

[kuzeko]

This is strange...
oauth_dance renewed, I can send DMs and do other calls like the normal (non streaming) user timeline, but not accessing the stream via OAuth.
On the other end, I confirm that if I switch to the plain UserPassAuth everything works, even the stream.

I also tried the curl equivalent command, and it worked.
I'm running python 2.7 on GNU/Linux Mint

[sixohsix]

Wait wait... note the difference in the domain. I'm using userstream.twitter.com, not stream.twitter.com. Userstream is the new 1.1 server to use. (Other streams have other servers now... confusingly.)

[kuzeko]

I'm not sure to understand... or I may have made some confusion

I tried the following just now

twitter = TwitterStream(domain='userstream.twitter.com', auth=oauth)
iterator = iterator = twitter.statuses.sample()

and I have the error.
Then I run

twitter = TwitterStream(domain='userstream.twitter.com', auth=UserPassAuth(user, pwd))
iterator = iterator = twitter.statuses.sample()

and it works.

changing to domain='stream.twitter.com' makes no difference :

• first doesn't work
• second still works

[pykler]

It seems your there is something wrong with your oauth credentials. Oauth
is working fine for me.

Using: twitter 1.9.2

[kuzeko]

It seems that my OAuth credentials are working ( @pykler I mentioned it in my original post up here ):

• I used them through curl and they worked
• I used them in the following code, and they worked:

twitter = Twitter(auth=oauth)
iterator = twitter.statuses.home_timeline()
twitter.direct_messages.new(user="Kuzeko", text="Check-check-check")

[kuzeko]

Is there a way to have print out the actual request the code is making?
Because, since the curl call is working, I would like to compare it to the call that the python is executing.

Thanks

[kuzeko]

It seems I'm dwelling in the merciless pit of cannot reproduce ... I'll try to deal with it, can you please answer to this:

Is there a way to have print out the actual request the code is making?

Thank you!

[placebofx]

Thanks! I was having the same issue but now I have a healthy stream again!

Is there a wiki for this code? I would love to contribute.

Thanks again

[kuzeko]

What and how please?

[kuzeko]

Here it is guys!
If you encounter problems with OAuth and a wild

HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

appears, the answer (in 90% of the cases) is:

sudo  ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org

Yes, your system has lost a minute too much