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Adriaan Joubert
Adriaan Joubert

Reputation: 195

Twitter API returned a 401 (Unauthorized), Invalid or expired token

I am using the below code to post a Tweet. This is a pretty standard authentication procedure but for some reason I cannot authenticate. The error I am getting is Twitter API returned a 401 (Unauthorized), Invalid or expired token.

from twython import Twython, TwythonError
import requests

APP_KEY = 'rpOzpgp2FZNJqsq0' #fake key
APP_SECRET = 'FKBJWXOJwXTblhi1xBl4PtKgPemNFvumH' #fake secret

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET)
auth = twitter.get_authentication_tokens()

OAUTH_TOKEN = auth['oauth_token']
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = auth['oauth_token_secret']

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)

oauth_verifier_url = auth['auth_url']
oauth_verifier = requests.get(oauth_verifier_url)

# Getting the FINAL authentication tokens
final_step = twitter.get_authorized_tokens(oauth_verifier)

OAUTH_TOKEN = final_step['oauth_token']
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = auth['oauth_token_secret']

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)

twitter.update_status(status='Yo')

Here is the full error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 20, in <module>
    final_step = twitter.get_authorized_tokens(oauth_verifier)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/twython/api.py", line 380, in get_authorized_tokens
    ken'), error_code=response.status_code)
twython.exceptions.TwythonError: Twitter API returned a 401 (Unauthorized), Invalid / expired To             ken

Why could I be getting this error and what can I do to fix it?

I have tried regenerating my keys multiple times. I have even deleted my app and created new ones multiple times but I still keep getting this error.

Under Application Settings my access level is set to read and write:

Screenshot of app page

I am not behind a firewall.

I have read other solutions concerning Twython authentication on this site but they all seem to provide the above code as the solution but this itself is not working for me.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4989

Answers (3)

user12106064
user12106064

Reputation:

Seems that you're using the Twitter API too often. Due to security reasons, Twitter has rate limiting on the usage of their Twitter API from an arbitrary app. Twitter says in their post how their Twitter API rate-limiting works. You can make a maximum of 15 GET requests under 15 minutes from a specific set of authorization keys of that particular app. After 15 minutes, you are free to make the next 15 requests available.

Upvotes: 0

Angelica Muela
Angelica Muela

Reputation: 1

You need to send four arguments not only 2

Objtwython = Twython(APP_KEY,APP_SECRET,ACCESS_TOKEN,ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

last ones the same way you get the others, getting from twitter directly.

Upvotes: 0

Ritesh
Ritesh

Reputation: 11

I was facing the same problem, but after regeneration of keys the problem got solved.

Upvotes: 1

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