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OutOfRange Index while parsing Tweets in JSON

I have made a simple application, which uses the Twitter Search API and looks for tweets based on topic name and stores the texts in a text file. I am getting 100 tweets per page but sometimes I am ...
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how to get the lastest user status using tweepy

I am trying to use tweepy to get the most recent user status My code is api = tweepy.API(auth) for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items(): lastid = status.id laststatus = ...
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unable to load json library while installing twitter api module

im trying to work with the twitter api with python3.3 in windows while I try to install using python setup.py install I get this error: raise ImportError, "Unable to load a json library" to ...
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Python Tweepy: Twitter Api saying that /users/lookup does not exist

I'm making a research application which studies interactions between twitter users with high authority. Part of it is extracting information about the users. I built an application using Tweepy for ...
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KeyErrorr:'to_user_name [closed]

Has anyone come across the ['KeyErrorr:'to_user_name''] as in below: Traceback (most recent call last): File "finalised1.py", line 53, in <module> touser = tweet['to_user_name'] KeyError: ...
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A preferable twitter lib for real time tweets in python? [closed]

To fetch real time public feed from twitter what should I do? I know there is streaming API but I don't know how to use it with python(2.7). I tried to use python-twitter library, but it contains old ...
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Let's Talk about Celery and Recursion and Talking to the Twitter API, shall we?

I'm working with Django 1.4 and Celery 3.0 (rabbitmq) to build an assemblage of tasks for sourcing and caching queries to Twitter API 1.1. One thing I am trying to implement is chain of tasks, the ...
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Unable to get data using Python-Twitter API

I am trying to use python twitter api (https://github.com/bear/python-twitter) to extract data from twitter. But all my calls are getting error import twitter api = twitter.Api() api = ...
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Twitter API cursoring in Python

A python beginner here, trying to get Twitter cursoring working in my script so I might iterate all of the users that belong to a list on Twitter. Pretty simple logic here. Start with this API ...
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How to display entities in tweet

In order to lower the number of calls to Twitter API we are caching some tweets on the server and displaying them directly from there. The problem is that when we display them the entities - link, ...
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Python Why can't I send a Tweet?

I am trying to send automated Tweets using python. I have tried two different packages python-twitter and tweepy but have not been successful using either package. Those solutions are discussed here: ...
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Getting 404 response with Twitter Tools

I'm using the latest version of Twitter Tools by sixohsix on Python 3. I can post tweets with no problem, so am assuming the authentication is all working fine. By when I try to retrieve tweets using ...
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Search twitter feeds with Tweepy

Thanks to @Nirvana Tikku, he solved my question on how to talk with Tweepy and perform simple search in this Question. The below are a series of code summary on how i authenticate my tweepy on GAE. ...
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Twitter Streaming API with GAE Python

Recently i keep on trying with differences methods on how to consume Twitter Streaming API. The purpose i need so is not the oath but i need to perform keyword search and get the public tweets and its ...
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Unknown error in sixohsix's Twitter API for Python

I have a small script that repeatedly (hourly) fetches tweets from the API, using sixohsix's Twitter Wrapper for Python. I am successful with handling most, if not all of the errors coming from the ...
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Connection refused to Twitter API on PythonAnywhere

I am trying to connect to the twitter streaming API on Python anywhere, but always get a connection refused error. I use Tweepy in my application, and to test the connection I am using the streaming ...
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Single-user OAuth error with api v1.1

I'm having trouble authenticating with the Twitter api. I'm using the oauth2 module in Python to conduct a single user sign-in. I've been using the following function to request follower ids: ...
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get_rate_status “remaining hits” does not decrease when I make GET calls anymore

I have a script written to iterate through a list of Twitter userIDs and save the lists of follower_ids to a file. I have used it several times with no problems. For long lists, I have added this ...
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Python extract top user name from json

I'm trying to get a sorted list or table of users from a loaded dict. I was able to print them as below but I couldn't figure out how to sort them in descending order according to the number of tweets ...
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Tweepy tracking terms and following users

I'm trying to build an app to track some terms from specifics users using the streaming twitter API. I made a working python script using tweepy for the streaming api based on this tutorial. But, ...
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Tweepy OAuth - HTTP Error 404: Not Found

I'm using the Tweepy library to implement 'Signin with Twitter' on my website. As shown in the Tweepy examples, I'm doing: def get(self): callback_url = ...
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How to encode this character in python

I got this (ÜT:) character result from location in twitter using twitter-api. i dont know how to encode this character to remove it from the result. example of the string ==> "ÜT: ...
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corpus from twitter

I am new in twitter use as a developer. I saw that someone can download dataset using the ids of tweets. However the twitter API has a limit for download. Is there any faster way to do this?
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Twitter API getting follower ids for huge number, without getting error

[I am using Python, and ruby gem twurl to request with OAuth.] I am trying to get follower ids from Twitter, for @BarackObama, who has 24,265,751 followers currently. Mathematically, 24,265,751 ...
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Is there an unofficial API for creating Twitter applications/api keys?

I need a way to programmatically create Twitter Applications/API keys. I could make something on my own, but does anyone know of a pre-made solution?
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What is the alternative for the python-twitter app which works with Twitter API 1.1 ? [closed]

In my project i want to access public timeline of twitter users using the oauth token which i have already stored in database. i tried using python-twitter app but it has some issues with Twitter api ...
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Parsing multi-dimensional json with Python issues

I'm working w/the twitter search API and using python to parse the data coming back. I'm a python-noob, so my error is probably my lack of understanding, though I'm stuck. My response looks like ...
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Tweepy: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I'm using Tweepy to download tweets from ~27,000 users. I ran the script 3 days ago, and it ran for many hours without a problem. I stopped running it for 2 days and then when I went to go restart it, ...
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Using Python regex to filter tweets

I'm trying to create a query that filters tweets by the @ or # tags. So I just want the results for either @Obama or #Obama but not Obama. This is what I have so far: re.compile(r'\b(?:#|@|)*%s*\b' ...
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Avoid 420s with Streaming API?

I have a python script that hooks into the Twitter Streaming API using basic authentication and making use of the tweetstream module. Im gathering around 10 tweets a minute. I was getting ...
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Pattern matching Twitter Streaming API

I'm trying to insert into a dictionary certain values from the Streaming API. One of these is the value of the term that is used in the filter method using track=keyword. I've written some code but on ...
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Extracting data from a mongo collection

I'm collecting real-time tweets and storing into a collection I now want to extract the information from a record in the collection: "place" : { "country_code" : "US", "url" : ...
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Restrict only geotagged tweets to flow through to mongodb

I am currently making use of Tweetstream to store tweets in MongoDB. I have setup a script that im running with python 2.7: extent =["144.715, -38.03", "145.219, -37.541"] with ...
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Twitter Stream API - Filter Containing special chars throws error

Using Python's tweetstream module I'd like to filter tweets by happy and sad text emoticons. For some reason filtering tweets with a happy face :) throws an error KeyError: 'text'. However, filtering ...
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Which Twitter wrapper libs support Python 3.x?

I'd like to add support for Twitter in a project built with Python 3.2, but I can't figure out which libraries support it. I've done a bit of googling and I cannot come up with a clear answer; the ...
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Python script that gets my latest tweet stopped working on my server

Consider the following code: import twitter api = twitter.Api() most_recent_status = api.GetUserTimeline('nemesisdesign')[0].text On my server (nemesisdesign.net) stopped working a few days ago. ...
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Get user id from user name for twitter using python

I am trying to get the user ID for a twitter user using a python import twitter twitter_api = twitter.Twitter(domain='api.twitter.com', api_version='1',auth = twitter.oauth.OAuth(ACCESS_KEY, ...
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Searching Twitter and storing results and replies in MySQL

I have the following code to retrieve pages of tweets containing "SNL": import twitter import json twitter_search = twitter.Twitter(domain="search.twitter.com") for page in range(11,50): ...
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Tweepy with Pyhton collecting data from twitter for spam detection [closed]

I am currently working twitter spam detection. For some experiments I need to collect large twitter data. For this I am using tweepy python combo. I went through OAuth tutorial and got succeeded. Now ...
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How do I restart the ioloop in tornado when fetching twitter stream api?

I'm using TweetStream (https://github.com/joshmarshall/TweetStream), a tornado based twitter streaming module to monitor the stream api. I would like to know how can I restart the fetch process if ...
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Python - Socket Timeout reason? Network connection loss or nothing to read?

Basically: Is there a way to tell (Python 2.7) when a socket times out if it is because nothing has been delivered to the socket or because the network connection is down? I have a Python application ...
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“Forbidden” when getting Direct Messages with twython

twitter = twython.Twython(oauth_token = oauth_token, oauth_token_secret = oauth_secret, app_key = oauth_consumer_key, ...
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Does Twitter REST API 1.1 provide a user's profile information without authentication?

I was trying to make a script that would search twitter for something and parse the results to list the users. When I tried to obtain the profile information of these users, I came to know that it ...
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issues diffing JSON (twitter API)

I'm working on a fairly simple script that monitors and archive's a given users tweets -- right now, my configuration requests an account's 20 most recent tweets (API limit) every five minutes, then ...
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Result duplication while crawling Twitter

while(page<=500): tweets=api.GetSearch("#Burma",per_page=100) Why it gives me so much duplicated result . It give me just one page and repeat it 500 times. It gives me the same tweets as of ...
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Error on getting data from twitter

import twitter api=twitter.Api() page=1 count=0 while(page<=2): tweets=api.GetSearch("#ghaza",per_page=200) twitterapi.until:2011-05-09 for k in tweets: print k.text ...
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python rauth / requests / openssl cannot get api.twitter

I am attempting to use rauth to do oauth with twitter, but it seems to be failing with the following error: requests.exceptions.SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:140770FC:SSL ...
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tweepy error.. Method doesn't exist

I need to run the twitter api call for friendship lookup. The details of the call are here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/friendships/lookup I am using tweepy to do this in python, ...
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Twython (Python) update_with_media request to Twitter API

I've been using Twython (https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython) to tweet photos, description and a link. So on Twitter it is displayed as "...description... ...link... ...pic.twitter.com/XXX..." The ...
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tweepy unbound method_call error

i'm trying to use tweepy for a simple request to get information about a particular user screen name. I did this: import tweepy api = tweepy.API api.get_user('name') I get the error: unbound ...

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