Post tweet with tweepy

Question

I'm trying to post a tweet with the tweepy library. I use this code:

import tweepy

CONSUMER_KEY ="XXXX"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "XXXX"   
ACCESS_KEY = "XXXX"    
ACCESS_SECRET = "XXXX"

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)

api = tweepy.API(auth)
api.update_status('Updating using OAuth authentication via Tweepy!')

But when I run the application, I receive this error:

raise TweepError(error_msg, resp)
TweepError: Read-only application cannot POST.

How can I fix this?

Solution 1

In the application's settings, set your Application Type to "Read and Write". Then renegotiate your access token.

Solution 2

the code works for me with only

api.update_status (**status** = 'Updating using OAuth authentication via Tweepy!')

Comments

[TedCap]

What do you mean by renegotiate your access token? Do you need a new access token if the app was read only when you got the original token?

[Shon]

I just figured out this part myself. After changing the application type, you must select Regenerate My Access Token and Token Secret for the account linked with your app. And, as @TedCap said, you will be issued new tokens reflecting the change in permissions for the associated account.

[Adam Christianson]

Actually this IS answer, just to a slightly different issue and it helped me, so I want to comment on this. I was getting a status response of '400' back from Twitter when I was using the Tweepy call: api.update_status('Updating using OAuth authentication via Tweepy!') but I was able to fix the issue by changing the method parameters to: api.update_status(status = 'Updating using OAuth authentication via Tweepy!') The Tweepy docs seem to be unclear about this nuance.