Error 429

[bostonsam]

Hey, guys, I have few questions for you

I'm trying to build a bot for twitter with API keys and tweepy
I'm getting an error 429 and for what I know for this, I must refer to twitter rate limits, so I go on the page : https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limits
And as I can read my rate limit should be 1000 tweet liked a for 24h
Good so I start coding and this is my code

`api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

user = api.me()

search = 'best food'
nrTweets = 1000

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(nrTweets):
try:

    print('Tweet Liked')
    tweet.favorite()

except tweepy.TweepError as e:
    print(e.reason)
    print("paused for 15min")
    time.sleep(15*60)`

Now this way I tried to avoid the 429 problems by waiting 15 min
But my question are 2

Why Am I getting this error in the first place, I mean I should be able to pull 1000 likes instead I stop at few?
Second, how can I target only the error 429
With my code, and is no surprise to me, I get a pause for all the errors so even if I encounter a tweet already liked I get to wait 15 min

I thought that I could use an if loop but because I'm a newbie I don't know how to get the syntax right. Can you give me a specific example of that, please?

As I said I'm a complete noob as a matter of fact I'm coding from 3 days and most of my code although I understand most of it is copied so sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm not able to find my solution by myself yet so I thought to ask you guys.

My goal for the bot is to get as many tweets as I can liked without being banned

[bostonsam]

I actually get the error but the code skyp that like and continue,
I will try Tweepy.RateLimitError can I do something like this ?

`search = 'best food'
nrTweets = 100

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(nrTweets):
try:

    if tweet.favorited == False:
        tweet.favorite()
        print('Tweet Liked')

except tweepy.RateLimitError as e:
    print(e.reason)`

[bostonsam]

Thanks actually Ratelimiterror doesn't work for me it stops the interaction if i get an already favourited tweet

Now I modified my code like this

api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

user = api.me()

search = 'Italian dish'
nrTweets = 200


for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(nrTweets):

    try:
        if tweet.favorited is False:
            tweet.favorite()
            print('Tweet Liked')

    except tweepy.TweepError as e:

        print(e.reason)
    except StopIteration:
        break

This gives me an ok result but as soon as I try to rerun the code I get 429 error, it seems to me that there is something else limiting my possibility of favouring
after only 200 likes I get the error or even less I don't know for sure (I'm hypothesizing because at a certain point the code stop and I think that it means it reaches the query nrTweets), also I see that for some 429 errors if I wait 15min let me restart the liking and that to me, that means that I have other restriction than the "tweet favourite" one.
Finally it doesn't stop for 429 error of course with my code but only print the reason.

Also the statement "if tweet.favorited is False:" don't do much for me, i get the same result with or without it

My question is this, with the code you see now am I making some other request that could have Rate limiting?

[bostonsam]

Maybe I found why can You tell me if is this what I'm looking for, i think so
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limiting

[Harmon758]

It's unclear what's going on here. You'll have to provide a full traceback and explain your expected and actual behavior if you want further help.

You can catch tweepy.TooManyRequests to handle 429 HTTP errors specifically.

An "if loop" is not a thing. An if statement uses a conditional and is not a loop.

tweet.favorited will always be False, as the endpoint that API.search_tweets (renamed from API.search in Tweepy v4.0.0) uses does not support perspectival attributes (fields that pertain to the perspective of the authenticating user). Instead, you can handle the tweepy.Forbidden exception that's raised with the 139 API error code.

For code block usage, see https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks.

[SodiKroehler]

I have a similar error, and found a workaround on the twitter labs. Sharing it here in hopes that perhaps it could be added as a feature?
v2 API throws a 429 error if the rate limit is reached per fifteen minutes or if the rate limit is reached per second. Tweepy v2 Client has an option to wait_on_rate_limit, which if set, provides functionality for catching the 15 minute rate limit by simply sleeping for the x-rate-limit-reset in the header. In the case of the second cause of the 429 error, that will pretty much always be the maximum 15 minutes, allowing you to get maybe one or two requests per 15 minutes. Workaround that I did is as follows:

try:
    my_client.search_all_tweets
    retryCount = 0
    ...
except tweepy.errors.TooManyRequests:
    if (retryCount < 10):
        sleep(1)
        continue
    else:
        sleep(900)
        print("429 with too many retries, sleeping for 15 mins")
        continue

The resetCount is reset after every successful call, but still prevents rate limit abuse by stopping after 10 tries. Another possible workaround would be just sleeping for 1 second after every request. Either way, it seems like the wait_on_rate_limit option in the client should accommodate this.