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tweepy error while getting tweets

I'm collecting a large number of tweets via tweepy, but after a while, it stops with the following message:

  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/tweepy/binder.py", line 185, in _call
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/tweepy/binder.py", line 168, in execute
tweepy.error.TweepError: [{'message': 'Sorry, that page does not exist', 'code': 34}]

I'm only collecting the replies to already-existing tweets,

so I'm guessing it is the case where the replier misspelled the author of the original tweet..

Is there a workaround to ignore this and proceed?

Solution

  • I figured it out myself. It was ridiculously simple.. You can just try/except and pass on the error.

    try:
        # do something                                    
except tweepy.error.TweepError:
        pass