__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'sleep_on_rate_limit' - Twitter API

PedroLucas
November 20, 2021
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I don’t have much experience with API’s, much less this one with Twitter. I’m trying to resolve a error called "rate limit reached error. sleeping for…" in Python, trying to use the command sleep_on_rate_limit=True, in the variable api but an error is showing in the terminal, which I don’t know the reason or how to solve. Help me guys love u.

Error:

__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'sleep_on_rate_limit'

Code:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumerkey, consumerkey_secret)
auth.set_access_token(acesstoken, acesstoken_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, sleep_on_rate_limit=True)

Answers

- Harmon758
- November 24, 2021 at 2:56 am
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sleep_on_rate_limit is not a valid parameter for initializing API.

So how i fix the "rate limit reached error. sleeping for…" error without this parameter???

That’s a warning that you’re being rate limit by Twitter’s API and that Tweepy is automatically sleeping the necessary amount of time for you (since you have wait_on_rate_limit set). It is not an error.

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- minhadona
- December 16, 2021 at 6:18 pm
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sleep_on_rate_limit is a parameter used by another lib other than tweepy. If you are using tweepy, the correspondent parameter is wait_on_rate_limit. They behave alike! Here’s an auth function I made for my retweet bot that is clean running since last year (please read after the code block):
```
def authenticating(credential):
print('nnfunction>>>>>authenticating')
 
"""   
█ █▄░█
█ █░▀█    
"""
    # credential         • <dictionary>                 ○ its keys will be used to authenticate
    
"""
█▀█ █░█ ▀█▀
█▄█ █▄█ ░█░
"""
    # api                • <class 'tweepy.api.API'>     ○ authenticated api

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(credential["api_key"],
                           credential["api_secret"])

auth.set_access_token(credential["access_token"],
                      credential["access_token_secret"])

api = tweepy.API(auth,
                 wait_on_rate_limit=True,
                 wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

print(render(f'welcome,', font="slick", background='transparent'))
print(render(f'{str(api.me().screen_name)}!', font="block", background='transparent')) 
# prints name of authenticated user in large font 

print('nfunction<<<<<authenticatingnn')
return api
```
P.s.: pay attention to the last twitter api version (v2) released on August 2021. I had troubles to authenticate by tweepy because of this parameter, and I believe the cause is linked to this new twitter API. Be sure to use a tweepy version released before the v2 twitter api or you will face unexpected and unexplainable errors. The most recent tweepy version pre-v2 is the 3.10.0. They will sure correct the problems for the next releases but for now, some precaution to not break your apps would be good.

Hope it helps you someway =)
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