[twitter-dev] OAuth Rate Limit Increase - Not seeing it
I thought that the OAuth Rate Limit went up to 350? I am still getting 150. Here is the returned XML from my request to http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash reset-time type=datetime2010-03-02T19:42:28+00:00/reset-time hourly-limit type=integer150/hourly-limit reset-time-in-seconds type=integer1267558948/reset-time-in- seconds remaining-hits type=integer150/remaining-hits /hash I am using OAuth and using the new version of the REST API. What else do I need to do?
[twitter-dev] 401 - Unauthorized error when diacritics in status
I am getting an error message when posting accent marks and other diacritics in a status update. I saw that there was an issue [1] posted in April of last year about this problem. It seems to be with the signature generation for OAuth with the encoding of accent marks. I am using .Net(C#), and I can't figure out how to fix this. Do I use a different encoding? Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this in .Net? [1] - http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=433 Ryan
[twitter-dev] OAuth - Username or Password is incorrect?
Starting about 20 minutes ago, I started getting this error message with my application. I am strictly using OAuth, so how exactly would the username or password be incorrect? I haven't changed the code in weeks. Anybody else having this problem?
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth - Username or Password is incorrect?
This would be a 401 unauthorized error. I also can't seem to do the OAuth authorization again.
[twitter-dev] (411) Length Required error
Ok, this is really starting to screw with me. On Sunday, I received this error. I put in code to send the content length when making a status update. It worked on Sunday. On Monday, the POST request started hanging. For two days, I tried to figure out what the problem was. So last night, I removed the code to add the content length. IT WORKED!!! Now, this morning, I am getting the error again that the length is required. So which is it? Is the length required or not? Last night it was not required, this morning it is. If I send it and it's not required, it hangs the request indefinitely. If I don't send it and it's required, I get an error message. Any help?
[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error
Here is a screenshot right before make the request. http://yfrog.com/8d10142009115958amp You can see that there is only the Content-Type header. But you can also see that the ContentLength is set(to 6...length of my status update). .Net doesn't allow me to add the header manually if the object has a property for that header. Ryan On Oct 14, 12:05 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Another question is, what has changed? This code has been working fine since September 24th(sending the ContentLength). Then on October 11th, I start having issues. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Other code uses this snippet also. Now this is even more hilarious. I am testing right now. I am sending the ContentLength no matter what. I now can't post status updates again. If I give it the ContentLength, it just hangs. If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the error. If I give it the ContentLength, I can send Direct Messages(length = 0). If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the same error with direct messages. When I view the request header, the only header there is the Content-Type. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the code... http://pastebin.com/m7ea04ea2 Last night, that code worked(with the content length being commented out). This morning, it gives me the length required error. Ryan I am not extremely familiar with C#, but you might want to run a trace to see what exactly the HTTP request headers are that you are sending. Are you calling this code only for posting an update? Or are there other methods using this code as well? I know for requests like friendship/create you have to set the content-length to 0 for the request to work if you specify the username in the URL... -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? Content-length should almost always be required for POSTs (from HTTP spec). -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, this is really starting to screw with me. On Sunday, I received this error. I put in code to send the content length when making a status update. It worked on Sunday. On Monday, the POST request started hanging. For two days, I tried to figure out what the problem was. So last night, I removed the code to add the content length. IT WORKED!!! Now, this morning, I am getting the error again that the length is required. So which is it? Is the length required or not? Last night it was not required, this morning it is. If I send it and it's not required, it hangs the request indefinitely. If I don't send it and it's required, I get an error message. Any help?
[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error
So any thoughts/ideas? Ryan On Oct 14, 12:09 pm, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a screenshot right before make the request. http://yfrog.com/8d10142009115958amp You can see that there is only the Content-Type header. But you can also see that the ContentLength is set(to 6...length of my status update). .Net doesn't allow me to add the header manually if the object has a property for that header. Ryan On Oct 14, 12:05 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Another question is, what has changed? This code has been working fine since September 24th(sending the ContentLength). Then on October 11th, I start having issues. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Other code uses this snippet also. Now this is even more hilarious. I am testing right now. I am sending the ContentLength no matter what. I now can't post status updates again. If I give it the ContentLength, it just hangs. If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the error. If I give it the ContentLength, I can send Direct Messages(length = 0). If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the same error with direct messages. When I view the request header, the only header there is the Content-Type. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the code... http://pastebin.com/m7ea04ea2 Last night, that code worked(with the content length being commented out). This morning, it gives me the length required error. Ryan I am not extremely familiar with C#, but you might want to run a trace to see what exactly the HTTP request headers are that you are sending. Are you calling this code only for posting an update? Or are there other methods using this code as well? I know for requests like friendship/create you have to set the content-length to 0 for the request to work if you specify the username in the URL... -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? Content-length should almost always be required for POSTs (from HTTP spec). -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, this is really starting to screw with me. On Sunday, I received this error. I put in code to send the content length when making a status update. It worked on Sunday. On Monday, the POST request started hanging. For two days, I tried to figure out what the problem was. So last night, I removed the code to add the content length. IT WORKED!!! Now, this morning, I am getting the error again that the length is required. So which is it? Is the length required or not? Last night it was not required, this morning it is. If I send it and it's not required, it hangs the request indefinitely. If I don't send it and it's required, I get an error message. Any help?
[twitter-dev] Re: (411) Length Required error
Ok. nevermind. I have it fixed now. Since I am using OAuth, I am not writing a stream to the request object (like I would do with Basic Auth). So I changed the ContentLength to 0, and it works. Could the response had been waiting for me to stream the content to it since I told it the length? I guess that could have cause the indefinite hanging. Ryan On Oct 14, 6:59 pm, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: So any thoughts/ideas? Ryan On Oct 14, 12:09 pm, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a screenshot right before make the request. http://yfrog.com/8d10142009115958amp You can see that there is only the Content-Type header. But you can also see that the ContentLength is set(to 6...length of my status update). .Net doesn't allow me to add the header manually if the object has a property for that header. Ryan On Oct 14, 12:05 pm, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Another question is, what has changed? This code has been working fine since September 24th(sending the ContentLength). Then on October 11th, I start having issues. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.comwrote: Other code uses this snippet also. Now this is even more hilarious. I am testing right now. I am sending the ContentLength no matter what. I now can't post status updates again. If I give it the ContentLength, it just hangs. If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the error. If I give it the ContentLength, I can send Direct Messages(length = 0). If I don't give it the ContentLength, I get the same error with direct messages. When I view the request header, the only header there is the Content-Type. Ryan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, ryan alford ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the code... http://pastebin.com/m7ea04ea2 Last night, that code worked(with the content length being commented out). This morning, it gives me the length required error. Ryan I am not extremely familiar with C#, but you might want to run a trace to see what exactly the HTTP request headers are that you are sending. Are you calling this code only for posting an update? Or are there other methods using this code as well? I know for requests like friendship/create you have to set the content-length to 0 for the request to work if you specify the username in the URL... -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chad Etzel c...@twitter.com wrote: Can you post your code snippet (in something like pastie or pastebin)? Content-length should almost always be required for POSTs (from HTTP spec). -Chad On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, this is really starting to screw with me. On Sunday, I received this error. I put in code to send the content length when making a status update. It worked on Sunday. On Monday, the POST request started hanging. For two days, I tried to figure out what the problem was. So last night, I removed the code to add the content length. IT WORKED!!! Now, this morning, I am getting the error again that the length is required. So which is it? Is the length required or not? Last night it was not required, this morning it is. If I send it and it's not required, it hangs the request indefinitely. If I don't send it and it's required, I get an error message. Any help?
[twitter-dev] Screen Scraping against TOS?
I was just wondering if screen scraping for OAuth for a desktop application was against the TOS? I tried reading it, but couldn't find anything. By screen scraping, I mean to send requests to twitter, and scrape the PIN from the page, and then use it for authorization. Ryan
[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request
Are people still having issues posting status updates from third party applications? I haven't been able to post all day. Still can't post now. There isn't an update on the Twitter status page. I didn't know if that was because it wasn't fixed yet, or because they just haven't updated it post yet. Ryan On Oct 12, 4:56 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: We need to get better at the status blog, but it's rare that we aren't responding to a site- wide issue within moments. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. Any idea when that might happen? I've been seeing this issue for over four hours now. Had a 4pm EDT client phone call, and didn't have much to tell them. I understand there's a lot going on that you guys need to handle, but the entire ecosystem that helped popularize Twitter has a financial motivation that needs to be attended to, even if Twitter's current momentum has carried it past us little people. And Twitter has shown a history of going to the media before informing us folk. There needs to be a better balance. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
[twitter-dev] Issue with API?
Does anybody know if there is an issue with the friends_timeline REST method? When I do it, it returns tweets from all of my friends. However, the following XML tag is false. How can that be? They are my friend if I am following them, correct? http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml and this is the first status that is returned. status created_atSat Oct 10 14:36:56 + 2009/created_at id4761273314/id text Disk2vhd Turns Your PC Into a Virtual Machine: http://bit.ly/1z6lNa /text source a href=http://www.tweetdeck.com/; rel=nofollowTweetDeck/a /source truncatedfalse/truncated in_reply_to_status_id/ in_reply_to_user_id/ favoritedfalse/favorited in_reply_to_screen_name/ user id43065412/id nameGeorge Dan Pirvu/name screen_namegamearchitect/screen_name locationa giant cubicle/location description Programming games since 1997. Psychologist, internet marketer, horrible chess player. /description profile_image_url http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/280718799/georgep_normal.jpg /profile_image_url urlhttp://www.randombyte.com/url protectedfalse/protected followers_count7643/followers_count profile_background_color9AE4E8/profile_background_color profile_text_color33/profile_text_color profile_link_color0084B4/profile_link_color profile_sidebar_fill_colorDDFFCC/ profile_sidebar_fill_color profile_sidebar_border_colorBDDCAD/ profile_sidebar_border_color friends_count8148/friends_count created_atThu May 28 07:08:07 + 2009/created_at favourites_count0/favourites_count utc_offset7200/utc_offset time_zoneBucharest/time_zone profile_background_image_url http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/19709051/olivemanna_islandpalms.jpg /profile_background_image_url profile_background_tiletrue/profile_background_tile statuses_count656/statuses_count notificationsfalse/notifications geo_enabledfalse/geo_enabled verifiedfalse/verified followingfalse/following /user geo/ /status So how can that be?
[twitter-dev] Twitter API OAuth Questions - (401) Unauthorized error when posting status
So after battling OAuth, I finally was able to get an access token. But now, I am getting a 401 Unauthorized error when trying to post the status. My question is, what parameters do I need to send for posting a status? All parameters(consumer key, consumer secret, token, token secret, nonce, timestamp, signature method, version)? Does that status go as a parameter, or is it written to the request like done with Basic Authentication? If it goes as a parameter, does it go as a parameter that is part of the signature, or is it tacked on at the end after the signature? I am doing a desktop app, so I have the PIN. Does the PIN need to also be a parameter to update the status? With this generic message, it's hard for me to figure out what I am doing wrong. I don't know if I am missing parameters, have too many parameters, or something that has nothing to do with the parameters. I am using .Net, which is throwing an exception when trying to get the response. All I can see is (401) Unauthorized. I tried going by the OAuth core documentation for accessing protected resources: http://oauth.net/core/1.0#anchor13 but still get the same error. Here is my POST data for updating a status: POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.xmloauth_consumer_key%3Dr1asAzyH1Kyq4BWE8ZlEg%26oauth_nonce %3D773772%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp %3D1253801265%26oauth_token%3D65084988- fQr5UVeZ6TDLZ9DQp7hEkOT0lXtAUUNp3AbYnCX8F%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26status%3DHelloWorld and my final URL looks like... http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?oauth_consumer_key=r1asAzyH1Kyq4BWE8ZlEgoauth_nonce=773772oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_timestamp=1253801265oauth_token=65084988-fQr5UVeZ6TDLZ9DQp7hEkOT0lXtAUUNp3AbYnCX8Foauth_version=1.0status=HelloWorldoauth_signature=5hYORksKDi%2bxF2LqXCxWrTI1ozk%3d
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter API OAuth Questions - (401) Unauthorized error when posting status
Thanks. I ended up copying the final url and pasting it into my browser. I was then able to see that it was complaining about the nonce. I changed it to use a GUID instead of a random number, since a random number could reproduce the same numbers. That seemed to have fixed my problem. On Sep 24, 12:14 pm, chad c...@twitter.com wrote: Hello, It looks like your base string is formatted correctly to generate the signature. Not sure if you displayed the final URL for clarity, but since sending a status update requires a POST, you need to put all of the parameters in the body of the POST request instead of in the URL query string. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, eclipsed4utoo ryanalford...@gmail.com wrote: So after battling OAuth, I finally was able to get an access token. But now, I am getting a 401 Unauthorized error when trying to post the status. My question is, what parameters do I need to send for posting a status? All parameters(consumer key, consumer secret, token, token secret, nonce, timestamp, signature method, version)? Does that status go as a parameter, or is it written to the request like done with Basic Authentication? If it goes as a parameter, does it go as a parameter that is part of the signature, or is it tacked on at the end after the signature? I am doing a desktop app, so I have the PIN. Does the PIN need to also be a parameter to update the status? With this generic message, it's hard for me to figure out what I am doing wrong. I don't know if I am missing parameters, have too many parameters, or something that has nothing to do with the parameters. I am using .Net, which is throwing an exception when trying to get the response. All I can see is (401) Unauthorized. I tried going by the OAuth core documentation for accessing protected resources: http://oauth.net/core/1.0#anchor13 but still get the same error. Here is my POST data for updating a status: POSThttp%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.xmloauth_consumer_key%3Dr1asAzyH1Kyq4BWE8ZlEg%26oauth_nonce %3D773772%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp %3D1253801265%26oauth_token%3D65084988- fQr5UVeZ6TDLZ9DQp7hEkOT0lXtAUUNp3AbYnCX8F%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26status%3DHelloWorld and my final URL looks like... http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?oauth_consumer_key=r1asAzyH1Ky...
