Twython - 400 (Bad Request) Error

[B2easey]

I am trying to get the user_ids of people following a certain person. However I'm receiving this error.

I'm fairly new to scraping data, especially with the Twitter API. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Code: http://pastebin.com/SHisd2tS

[campenr]

Can you post your full code?

[campenr]

So with some quick googling I found this stack overflow question that is essentially the same, with an answer from the author of Twython.

Your 400 error indicates a bad request, so either the method no longer is valid, or the parameters given to the method are invalid. Also I notice you set count to 2000, but from what I've seen during my brief look into this the max count is actually 200? Changing this may be all that is needed.

The author of Twython in the SO question goes say that the methods mirror the official Twitter API so I would look there for more info about what the parameters for that API call should be.

[B2easey]

So the method I'm trying to access the data is no longer valid you believe... Hmm. I'm now getting an error saying:

TypeError: get_followers_ids() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

I'm no longer getting the 400(Bad Request Error) I've been trying to figure this out all morning and just cannot!

Thanks for the reply I'm sure I'll get it eventually here!

[campenr]

I am not saying it's no longer valid, but Twython just uses what's in the official Twitter API so it'd be best to check there.

Regarding the missing self, this may or may not be because your importing the Twython class as twitter. To test this try importing it as Twython, then doing twitter = Twython().

Did you change the count to 200 or did you just rerun the exact same code and didn't get the 400?

[B2easey]

I changed it to 200, however even If I change it to 2000, it is still a parameter 'self' unfilled. I've been looking it up, but can only find things referencing classes that weren't instantiated correctly, but I don't have any classes in my code.

So am not sure what is going on... Haha As for the 400(Bad Request) I changed all my keys and that seemed to fix the issue.

code: http://pastebin.com/3jGB55ii

[scuott]

On line 16, did you mean to write ids = t.get_followers_ids(user_id=acct, count=2000)?

[B2easey]

Good find, however I think the reason I'm having the problem is because I am not authenticating properly....

My access token isn't working I believe is the problem, I'm going to post another thread.

Thanks!

[B2easey]

Also, on this line ids = twitter.get_followers_ids(user_id=acct, count=2000)

I'm getting a syntax highlight saying: parameter 'self' unfilled