Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
For instance, set up the my database to create 200 tweets to post to a account. It ran at 11:49 AM EST. I noticed that 127 tweets were posted and the remaining got kicked with the error response. Not sure if there is a limit of 127 I thought it was 150 limit per hour. This also does not hit the 1000 daily limit since it was only 200 tweets. I will try this again in about 1 hour. I should be able to start tweeting again. Let me know what you think? On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.com wrote: But, It appears did not hit a 1000 update limit since after an hour and can start updates again. That why it appears to be an hourly limit. Not to mention when this started I did not even have a 1000 tweets total on the account. That is why it can't be the 1000 a day limit. There is should be another reason for this. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there are too many status updates being posted by the account. This isn't an API rate limit but a natural limit which applies to all of Twitter. A user may not Twitter more than 1000 updates a day (this includes retweets). More information on these limits are explained on the page I linked to before: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that clarifies the what is happening. Matt On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name =
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Why not? If Twitter states I can send 150 an hour or 1000 a day I should be able to. Not my rules its twitters. So I guess it needs to be written somewhere that 42 per hour is the limit. I am just trying to understand why it appears that I am hitting a limit when i am only doing what twitter apparently allows. The limit I see is possibly the number of messages sent at one time and twitter can't handle it and throws the error I have been receiving. So if that exists than I understand. I just need to know where it is stated. The error message appears to wrong as well since I can still send tweets and it has been a couple hours later. Then I can tell the program manager that this is why we can't send this many messages because of this limit. Maybe what will help is a link stating that there are protections that prevent a certain number of updates/tweets happening at once. Thanks On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Why are you sending so many Tweets? It sounds like you are being restricted because you are sending too many per hour. The limit of updates per day exists but there are protections to prevent all those updates happening at once. I'm not familiar with the code that handles the measure windows or what the limits are but consider that 1000 tweets per day is approx 42 per hour. Matt On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: For instance, set up the my database to create 200 tweets to post to a account. It ran at 11:49 AM EST. I noticed that 127 tweets were posted and the remaining got kicked with the error response. Not sure if there is a limit of 127 I thought it was 150 limit per hour. This also does not hit the 1000 daily limit since it was only 200 tweets. I will try this again in about 1 hour. I should be able to start tweeting again. Let me know what you think? On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: But, It appears did not hit a 1000 update limit since after an hour and can start updates again. That why it appears to be an hourly limit. Not to mention when this started I did not even have a 1000 tweets total on the account. That is why it can't be the 1000 a day limit. There is should be another reason for this. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there are too many status updates being posted by the account. This isn't an API rate limit but a natural limit which applies to all of Twitter. A user may not Twitter more than 1000 updates a day (this includes retweets). More information on these limits are explained on the page I linked to before: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that clarifies the what is happening. Matt On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Hey Eric, The 150 limit you refer to relates to GET requests to the API. This is documented on our developer resources site at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#rest. So information is collected in the same place i'll explain the rate limiting concepts of interest in this message. In our rate limiting document we state: Rate limits are applied to methods that request information with the HTTP GET command. Generally API methods that use HTTP POST to submit data to Twitter are not rate limited, however some methods are being rate limited now. Every method in the API Documentation explains if it is rate limited or not. We go on to say: API methods which are not directly rate limited are still controlled by the daily update and follower limits to promote healthy use and discourage spam. These Twitter Limits are described on our help site. The Twitter Limits links to our help document here: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 In that help document we state: Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as updates. and go on to say: These limits include actions from all devices including web, mobile, phone, API, etc. API requests from all third-party applications are tracked against the hourly API limit. People who use multiple third-party applications with their account will therefore reach the API limit more quickly. and ... These limits may be temporarily reduced during periods of heavy site usage. In such cases, we will post an update at the Twitter Status blog. The 150 you refer to, assuming you are using Basic Authentication, is the total number of API rate limited requests an IP is permitted to make per hour. If you use OAuth (which you must do before August 16th) you get 350 API rate limited requests per hour. These requests are not the same ones as those which update your status though. We do say you can send up to 1000 updates (including retweets) in a day. My example of 42 updates per hour was simply dividing 1000/24 to give an indication of how sending 200 updates is a very large number of Tweets to be sending in one hourly interval. As natefanaro has said, exact hourly limits are not published or released to avoid abuse. I hope the explanation above explains rate limiting and how it applies differently to read and write requests. Best, Matt On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.com wrote: Why not? If Twitter states I can send 150 an hour or 1000 a day I should be able to. Not my rules its twitters. So I guess it needs to be written somewhere that 42 per hour is the limit. I am just trying to understand why it appears that I am hitting a limit when i am only doing what twitter apparently allows. The limit I see is possibly the number of messages sent at one time and twitter can't handle it and throws the error I have been receiving. So if that exists than I understand. I just need to know where it is stated. The error message appears to wrong as well since I can still send tweets and it has been a couple hours later. Then I can tell the program manager that this is why we can't send this many messages because of this limit. Maybe what will help is a link stating that there are protections that prevent a certain number of updates/tweets happening at once. Thanks On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Why are you sending so many Tweets? It sounds like you are being restricted because you are sending too many per hour. The limit of updates per day exists but there are protections to prevent all those updates happening at once. I'm not familiar with the code that handles the measure windows or what the limits are but consider that 1000 tweets per day is approx 42 per hour. Matt On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: For instance, set up the my database to create 200 tweets to post to a account. It ran at 11:49 AM EST. I noticed that 127 tweets were posted and the remaining got kicked with the error response. Not sure if there is a limit of 127 I thought it was 150 limit per hour. This also does not hit the 1000 daily limit since it was only 200 tweets. I will try this again in about 1 hour. I should be able to start tweeting again. Let me know what you think? On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: But, It appears did not hit a 1000 update limit since after an hour and can start updates again. That why it appears to be an hourly limit. Not to mention when this started I did not even have a 1000 tweets total on the account. That is why it can't be the 1000 a day limit. There is should be another reason for this. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
But, It appears did not hit a 1000 update limit since after an hour and can start updates again. That why it appears to be an hourly limit. Not to mention when this started I did not even have a 1000 tweets total on the account. That is why it can't be the 1000 a day limit. There is should be another reason for this. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there are too many status updates being posted by the account. This isn't an API rate limit but a natural limit which applies to all of Twitter. A user may not Twitter more than 1000 updates a day (this includes retweets). More information on these limits are explained on the page I linked to before: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that clarifies the what is happening. Matt On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there are too many status updates being posted by the account. This isn't an API rate limit but a natural limit which applies to all of Twitter. A user may not Twitter more than 1000 updates a day (this includes retweets). More information on these limits are explained on the page I linked to before: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that clarifies the what is happening. Matt On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris --
[twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml
Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch to that method of authentication now. Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Eric Mortensen emort...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website: http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 Hope that answers your question, Matt On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Eric emort...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS twit_host VARCHAR2(255) := 'api.twitter.com'; twit_protocol VARCHAR2(10) := 'http://'; -- URL for status updates tweet_url VARCHAR2(255) := '/1/statuses/update.xml'; FUNCTION tweet ( p_user IN VARCHAR2, p_pwd IN VARCHAR2, p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_proxy_url IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, p_no_domains IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) RETURN BOOLEAN AS v_req UTL_HTTP.REQ; -- HTTP request ID v_resp UTL_HTTP.RESP; -- HTTP response ID v_value VARCHAR2(1024); -- HTTP response data v_status VARCHAR2(160); -- Status of the request v_call VARCHAR2(2000); -- The request URL v_log_value varchar2(4000) := 'status'; BEGIN -- Twitter update url v_call := twit_protocol || twit_host || tweet_url; -- encoded status string v_status := utl_url.escape( url = 'status=' || SUBSTR( short_url.encode_text(p_string) , 1,140)); -- Authenticate via proxy -- Proxy string looks like 'http://username:passw...@proxy.com' -- p_no_domains is a list of domains not to use the proxy for -- These settings override the defaults that are configured at the database level IF p_proxy_url IS NOT NULL THEN Utl_Http.set_proxy ( proxy = p_proxy_url, no_proxy_domains = p_no_domains ); END IF; -- Has to be a POST for status update v_req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST( url = v_call, method ='POST'); -- Pretend we're a moz browser UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'User-Agent', value = 'Mozilla/4.0'); -- Pretend we're coming from an html form UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Type', value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); -- Set the length of the input UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER( r = v_req, name = 'Content-Length', value = length(v_status)); -- authenticate with twitter user/pass UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION( r = v_req, username = p_user, password = p_pwd ); -- Send the update UTL_HTTP.WRITE_TEXT( r = v_req, data = v_status ); UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; EXCEPTION -- normal exception when reading the response WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); RETURN TRUE; -- Anything else and send false WHEN OTHERS THEN UTL_HTTP.end_request (v_req); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Request_Failed: ' || Utl_Http.Get_Detailed_Sqlerrm ); Dbms_Output.Put_Line ( 'Ora: ' || Sqlerrm ); RETURN FALSE; END; END tweet; Thanks -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
