I am very new to using the Twitter API and was testing some Python code (below)
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream
import twitter_credentials
class StdOutListener(Stream):
def on_data(self, data):
print(data)
return True
def on_error(self, status):
print(status)
twitter_stream = StdOutListener(
twitter_credentials.CONSUMER_KEY, twitter_credentials.CONSUMER_KEY_SECERET,
twitter_credentials.ACCESS_TOKEN, twitter_credentials.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECERET
)
twitter_stream.filter(track=['#bitcoin'])
but whenever I try to run it, it would give this repeating error "Stream encountered HTTP error: 403". I checked the Twitter API response codes and error 403 was listed as the request is forbidden.
Here are some troubleshooting steps I already took:
None of these worked for me. So what is causing this error and how can I fix it? Thank you.
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