stream.statuses.filter returns Error 401 Unauthorized suddenly #285

lxh529 · 2015-03-02T16:34:32Z

I have been using this great api for tracking some twitter keywords for a while, but suddenly, since Feb 24 around 13:00 I got "Error 401 Unauthorized" error.

I am using 1.14.3. Any body help? Thanks!

minuscorp · 2015-07-31T10:10:31Z

This is happening to me as well, I'm using 1.17.1 with the same error.

Can somebody help?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TwitterExtractor.py", line 378, in <module>
    twitterExtractor.stream_extract(keywords="incibe")
  File "TwitterExtractor.py", line 249, in stream_extract
    tweet_iterator = stream.statuses.filter(track=str(keywords), language="es")
  File "/home/jrevuelta/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 312, in __call__
    return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
  File "/home/jrevuelta/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter/stream.py", line 284, in _handle_response
    _timeout or timeout, heartbeat_timeout)
  File "/home/jrevuelta/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twitter/stream.py", line 209, in handle_stream_response
    raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, 'json', arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 401 for URL: 1.1/statuses/filter.json using parameters: (language=es&oauth_consumer_key=XXXXXXXXXXX&oauth_nonce=1529571930533329411&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1438337641&oauth_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&oauth_version=1.0&track=incibe&oauth_signature=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
details: <html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>\n<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTTP ERROR: 401</h2>
<p>Problem accessing '/1.1/statuses/filter.json'. Reason:
<pre>    Unauthorized</pre>
</body>
</html>

RouxRC · 2015-07-31T10:21:35Z

This looks to me like a badly documented issue regarding OAuth and timestamps: if that's the case, basically your server is slighty shifted from the actual time and when Twitter gets your OAuth timestamped queries they're considered outdated. This typically happens sometimes after leapSecond changes if the time is not properly fixed on the server.
So can you try and update the time on your machine and see whether that solves it?
Otherwise it might be a simple auth issue, maybe try to regen and change your tokens/secret on dev.twitter.com

minuscorp · 2015-07-31T13:41:09Z

Actually that was true.

My server has (don't know why) a time drift, I synced it again with an NTP Server and it worked again.

Thank you so much!

RouxRC · 2016-01-04T20:01:39Z

keeping this one open as documentation for further people

sunny074u · 2016-10-11T02:29:21Z

Please help, I faced this problem;

\n\n\n<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>

HTTP ERROR: 401

Problem accessing '/1/statuses/sample.json?oauth_body_hash=2jmj7l5rSw0yVb%2FvlWAYkK%2FYBwk%3D&oauth_nonce=49357639&oauth_timestamp=1476141985&oauth_consumer_key=%3CkahjO7UXvguegErgJZBNLHmO3%3E&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=%3C340989397-wnPAEy0p0L2VvyYAYOR75ATdnKNL5eX6QFg3RhbE%3E&oauth_signature=4TU60zYSGpEZqAYaAEJlEs0F47Y%3D'. Reason:

    Unauthorized

RouxRC · 2016-10-23T18:54:50Z

Hi @sunny074u, looking at the keys in your url, it looks like you're using < (%3c) > (%3e) symbols around your keys in your oauth setting.

nedd-bastien · 2017-01-04T08:35:23Z

Well thanks, I had a 20min time drift & was going mad :)
(aptitude install ntp, on debian, did the trick)

RouxRC · 2017-06-28T11:38:31Z

As a reminder, when this happens, a typical resolution on linux machines is:

sudo service ntp stop
sudo ntpd -gq
# Or on older machines
# sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov
sudo service ntp start

n-eq · 2020-07-02T13:28:46Z

Hi @RouxRC !

I am running into the same issue and it doesn't seem it's a time drift problem (I executed the ntp script but it didn't change anything.)

Any updates?

RouxRC · 2020-07-02T13:36:44Z

Hasn't your account/API keyset been suspended by twitter maybe? These are the main two possible reasons I experienced

n-eq · 2020-07-02T14:33:26Z

Hi @RouxRC
Yes, I double checked. I used another api (tweepy) to test tweeting and it actually works so the keys must be valid. Actually even the basic operations don't work (e.g. home_timeline returns 404). I'll check again if there's something wrong but for the record here's the log :

>>> t = TwitterStream(auth=OAuth("XX", "XX", "XX", "XX"))
>>> t
<twitter.stream.TwitterStream object at 0x7f888f6782d0>
>>> t.statuses.sample()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "twitter/api.py", line 334, in __call__
    return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
  File "twitter/stream.py", line 264, in _handle_response
    _timeout or timeout, heartbeat_timeout)
  File "twitter/stream.py", line 213, in handle_stream_response
    raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, 'json', arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 401 for URL: 1.1/statuses/sample.json using parameters: (oauth_consumer_key=XX&oauth_nonce=XX&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1593696259&oauth_token=XX&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=pCmGt%2BrmWppCCCewrpGezi0Acb8%3D)
details: <html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>\n<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTTP ERROR: 401</h2>
<p>Problem accessing '/1.1/statuses/sample.json?oauth_consumer_key=XX&amp;oauth_nonce=XX&amp;oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&amp;oauth_timestamp=1593696259&amp;oauth_token=RRVD4z4jcFLCfaORJpVGmCFTW&amp;oauth_version=1.0&amp;oauth_signature=pCmGt%2BrmWppCCCewrpGezi0Acb8%3D'. Reason:
<pre>    Unauthorized</pre>
</body>
</html>

RouxRC · 2020-07-06T21:03:38Z

Hi,
All examples output you've shown are 401 on stream routes, can you show other routes with the same auth?
For instance what does t.search.tweets(q="test") return?

n-eq · 2020-07-06T21:28:56Z

@RouxRC you're right.
Here's the output of the command you requested.

>>> t = Twitter(auth=OAuth('xx-wa4vYbh7sFg7dTlUZ4dq7fUGjgGhwz', 'xx', 'xx', 'xx'))
>>> t.statuses.sample()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "twitter/api.py", line 334, in __call__
    return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
  File "twitter/api.py", line 367, in _handle_response
    raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, self.format, arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 404 for URL: 1.1/statuses/sample.json using parameters: (oauth_consumer_key=xx&oauth_nonce=114329492091994170&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1594070658&oauth_token=xx-wa4vYbh7sFg7dTlUZ4dq7fUGjgGhwz&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=Jhkm69Avymum2taLySZ%2BxNaEFU4%3D)
details: {u'errors': [{u'message': u'Sorry, that page does not exist', u'code': 34}]}
>>> t.search.tweets(q='test')
{u'search_metadata': {u'count': 15, u'completed_in': 0.059, u'max_id_str': u'1280251196398329857', u'since_id_str': u'0', u'next_results': u'?max_id=1280251182687158272&q=test&include_entities=1', u'refresh_url': u'?since_id=1280251196398329857&q=test&include_entities=1', u'since_id': 0, u'query': u'test', u'max_id': 1280251196398329857}, u'statuses': [{u'contributors': None, u'truncated': True, u'text': u'@Will_BrysonMVCS @Sooner_Source And they are counting tests as positive if you have an appointment then leave befor\u2026 https://t.co/qkJGFakdR8', u'is_quote_status': False, u'in_reply_to_status_id': 1280248041434492928, u'id': 1280251196398329857, u'favorite_count': 0, u'entities': {u'symbols': [], u'user_mentions': [{u'id': 778229275015118848, u'indices': [0, 16], u'id_str': u'778229275015118848', u'screen_name': u'Will_BrysonMVCS', u'name': u'Coach Bryson'}, {u'id': 278899813, u'indices': [17, 31], u'id_str': u'278899813', u'screen_name': u'Sooner_Source', u'name': u'SoonerSource'}], u'hashtags': [], u'urls': [{u'url': u'https://t.co/qkJGFakdR8', u'indices': [117, 140], u'expanded_url': u'https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1280251196398329857', u'display_url': u'twitter.com/i/web/status/1\u2026'}]}, u'retweeted': False, u'coordinates': None, u'source': u'<a href="http://twitter.com/download/iphone" rel="nofollow">Twitter for iPhone</a>', u'in_reply_to_screen_name': u'Will_BrysonMVCS', u'in_reply_to_user_id': 778229275015118848, u'retweet_count': 0, u'id_str': u'1280251196398329857', u'favorited': False, u'user': {u'follow_request_sent': False, u'has_extended_profile': True, u'profile_use_background_image': True, u'default_profile_image': False, u'id': 904837484953165824, u'profile_background_image_url_https': None, u'verified': False, u'translator_type': u'none', u'profile_text_color': u'333333', u'profile_image_url_https': u'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1267662209557151747/QQ3YXw_-_normal.jpg', u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'DDEEF6', u'entities': {u'description': {u'urls': []}}, u'followers_count': 1200, u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'C0DEED', u'id_str': u'904837484953165824', u'profile_background_color': u'F5F8FA', u'listed_count': 1, u'is_translation_enabled': False, u'utc_offset': None, u'statuses_count': 15284, u'description': u'Basketball Enthusiast \u2022 Christ Follower \u2022 @tristentamera significant other \u2764\ufe0f', u'friends_count': 1841, u'location': u'Mustang, OK', u'profile_link_color': u'1DA1F2', u'profile_image_url': u'http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1267662209557151747/QQ3YXw_-_normal.jpg', u'following': False, u'geo_enabled': True, u'profile_banner_url': u'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/904837484953165824/1589757129', u'profile_background_image_url': None, u'screen_name': u'CodyJohnsonBB', u'lang': None, u'profile_background_tile': False, u'favourites_count': 19320, u'name': u'Coach Johnson', u'notifications': False, u'url': None, u'created_at': u'Mon Sep 04 22:44:02 +0000 2017', u'contributors_enabled': False, u'time_zone': None, u'protected': False, u'default_profile': True, u'is_translator': False}, u'geo': None, u'in_reply_to_user_id_str': u'778229275015118848', u'lang': u'en', u'created_at': u'Mon Jul 06 21:24:05 +0000 2020', u'in_reply_to_status_id_str': u'1280248041434492928', u'place': None, u'metadata': {u'iso_language_code': u'en', u'result_type': u'recent'}}]}

I trimmed the json output for better readability, but the command succeeds.

RouxRC · 2020-07-06T21:39:06Z

Ha all right I think I know: you're not using the proper class for Stream routes, you should use t=TwitterStream(auth=OAuth(...)) instead

RouxRC · 2020-07-06T21:39:46Z

PS : and it's normal that home_timeline returns a 404, it was shut down by Twitter a few months ago

n-eq · 2020-07-06T22:00:52Z

Ha all right I think I know: you're not using the proper class for Stream routes, you should use t=TwitterStream(auth=OAuth(...)) instead

Indeed, works like a charm now. Thanks @RouxRC !

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