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401 Error Unauthorized from tweepy library as per twitter v2 api

So, I was making a twitterbot, for that I was using tweepy library using python. For that I added credentials like the access toke etc but. get the error 401 unauthorized from tweepy library.

I've added the code below:

import tweepy

TWITTER_API_KEY = "xxxxx"
TWITTER_API_SECRET = "xxxxx"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = "xxxxx"
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "xxxxx"

consumer_key = TWITTER_API_KEY
consumer_secret_key = TWITTER_API_SECRET
access_token = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
access_token_secret = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret_key)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
stream = tweepy.Stream(auth, tweepy.StreamListener)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

api.update_status("Hello World!")

Error is as given below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\New\ThoughtfulGPT\main.py", line 50, in <module>
    tweets = client.get_users_mentions(id = 1683711485820936192)
  File "C:\Users\New\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py", line 1369, in get_users_mentions
    return self._make_request(
  File "C:\Users\New\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py", line 129, in _make_request
    response = self.request(method, route, params=request_params,
  File "C:\Users\New\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\tweepy\client.py", line 98, in request
    raise Unauthorized(response)
tweepy.errors.Unauthorized: 401 Unauthorized
Unauthorized

Note that I have wrote only about the authentification part and not the full code

I was trying to get the program to tweet the "Hello World" But I got an error 401 from tweepy library

Solution

  • After recent updates of the twitter APIs, tweet creation is possible only with the newest API v2, which is called through tweepy's Client class and create_tweet method.

    You can try replacing the corresponding lines in your code with:

    apiv2 = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key=consumer_key, 
    consumer_secret=consumer_secret, 
    access_token=access_token, 
    access_token_secret=access_token_secret,
)

apiv2.create_tweet(text="Hello World!", user_auth=True)

    See this answer.

    If you still have an 401 unauthorized error, check also on the Twitter Developer platform that your project has API v2 access with read/write permissions.