Unauthorized Error - Get The Number of Followers That A Blog Has

[peoplecallmefrancois]

This is the JSON response, when I use this library to get the followers of a blog.

{'meta': {'status': 401, 'msg': 'Not Authorized'}, 'response': []}

This is what I use to call it:
#client is declared elsewhere tumblr_followers = json.loads(json.dumps(client.followers('good')))

print tumblr_followers

I am able to use the library for getting Blog Posts, I was just wondering how I could get the total number of followers of a blog, since apparently I am not authorized to get this info? Thanks.

Francois

---

After reading some documentation, it turns out you need OAuth, I'm still relatively new to Python, how do I make an OAuth request to Tumblr? I have the OAuth Consumer Key/Secret/API Key/Secret.

Thanks for the help in advance.

[seejohnrun]

When you instantiate your client, you can pass the OAuth details like so (from the README):

client = pytumblr.TumblrRestClient(
    '<consumer_key>',
    '<consumer_secret>',
    '<oauth_token>',
    '<oauth_secret>',
)

That should get you all set - let me know if you end up with more questions!

[peoplecallmefrancois]

I am doing that. Maybe my oauth token and oath are wrong?

[seejohnrun]

Could be - how are you getting the token & secret?
An easy way is to check out the API console at: https://api.tumblr.com/console and use the keys from there

[peoplecallmefrancois]

Thanks! I never knew you could do that (it's quite useful), I was just following some instructions I found somewhere online.

So now, I can get the number of followers for my blog.

Does Tumblr allow me to get the number of followers of a blog other than mine? Because I still get errors when I try to get the number of followers, for example, that notoriousgifs.tumblr.com has.

[codingjester]

You cannot get the followers or number of a blog you do not own or belong to, @peoplecallmefrancois.

[peoplecallmefrancois]

Oh ok, thanks for the confirmation, I just had thought that maybe it was like Twitter in the followers sense (number of followers is public). Thanks for your help, and in the process I also got to know about the API console! 👍

[peoplecallmefrancois]

Oh, a possible enhancement, maybe add a link to the API console to the readme, so it is easy for noobs like me to get it configured properly. @codingjester @seejohnrun

[codingjester]

Sure. We're probably also going to create an interactive console so that
will walk you through the 3-legged oauth process.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:22 AM, peoplecallmefrancois <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Oh, a possible enhancement, maybe add a link to the API console to the
readme, so it is easy for noobs like me to get it configured properly.
@codingjester https://github.com/codingjester @seejohnrunhttps://github.com/seejohnrun

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/12#issuecomment-21049483
.

John Bunting

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability
--Edsger W. Dijkstra

[seejohnrun]

API console links to individual projects on github links coming soon

[avtavgen]

have the same proble, after passing OAuth deteils still have this output:
{
"meta": {
"status": 401,
"msg": "Not Authorized"
},
"response": []
}

[codingjester]

Are you trying to access a blog that you have access to? You can't see the followers or number of followers for say, my blog with your app keys without me authorizing your app.

[peoplecallmefrancois]

Oh ok, thanks, @codingjester , I just assumed that Tumblr's followers system worked similar to Twitter's.