CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythontwittertweepy
teknoboy
teknoboy

Reputation: 175

replying to tweet with image using tweepy

i'm trying to tweepy to reply to certain tweets, and my reply includes an image. the twt variable holds the tweet i'm trying to reply to. here's what i'm doing at the moment:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import tweepy, time, random  

CONSUMER_KEY = 'XXXX'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'XXXX'
ACCESS_KEY = 'XXXX'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'XXXX'  

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)  

query = ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc']
t0 = time.time()
count = 0
last_count = 0

f = open('last_replied.txt')
last_replied = int(f.readline().strip())
f.close()
print('starting time:', time.strftime('%X'))

while True:
    if count > last_count:
        print(time.strftime('%X'), ':', count, 'replies')
        last_count = count
    for i in range(3):
        twts = api.search(query[i], since_id=last_replied)
        if len(twts)>0:
            for twt in twts:
                sid = twt.id
                sn = twt.user.screen_name
                stat = "lalala" + "@" + sn
                api.update_with_media('oscar1.gif',status=stat,in_reply_to_status_id=sid)
                count += 1
                last_replied = twt.id
                f = open('last_replied.txt','w')
                f.write(str(last_replied))
                f.close()
        pause = random.randint(50,90)
        time.sleep(pause)

my tweet gets posted, but not as a reply to the original tweet (twt). instead, it just gets posted as a new, independent, tweet.
however, when instead of update_with_media as above, i use update_status, such as:

api.update_status(status=stat,in_reply_to_status_id=sid)

my new tweet does get posted as a reply to the original tweet (twt).

what am i missing?
thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2589

Answers (3)

teknoboy
teknoboy

Reputation: 175

the solution i ended up with was switching to the twython module, that has the functionality well documented and working perfectly. thank you very much for your help.

Upvotes: 1

johndburger
johndburger

Reputation: 58

I glanced at the code for update_with_media and don't see any obvious bugs, but the new method of handling tweets with media was added to the Tweepy API in January - note the last two bullets here:

https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/releases/tag/v3.2.0

If you download Tweepy 3.2.0 you should be able to switch over to the new regimen, which will hopefully fix your reply_to problem. (I can't say for sure if the new stuff works, I'm using an older version of Tweepy myself.)

Upvotes: 0

Juan E.
Juan E.

Reputation: 1819

The update_with_media endpoint is being deprecated by Twitter (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/statuses/update_with_media) you shouldn't use it. Instead upload the media first with the media_upload method and add the media_ids you get back to the update_status method.

Upvotes: 0

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