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Twitter Search API: Getting error 32 could not authenticate you with specific searches but not every search – Twitter API

I’m using python3 to send a request to the Twitter Search API. I’m testing these requests in Postman, and then using the code snippit generator to copy and paste into my editor to run like so:

url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=twitter"

payload={}
headers = {
  'Authorization': 'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="",oauth_token="",oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_timestamp="1613517432",oauth_nonce="x",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_body_hash="",oauth_signature=""',
  'Cookie': 'personalization_id=""; lang=en; guest_id='
}


twitter_response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

The requests work just fine in Postman. But in my script, the request only works when the query parameter for the URL is "nasa". If I change it to anything else, I get error 32 Could not authenticate.

Is there some quirk about Python I don’t know about when it comes to the Twitter Search API? Any guidance would be helpful here.

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    I was able to find a way around this by using the Tweepy API wrapper, which solved my OAuth issues. The headers weren't getting formatted properly for the request.


  2. 0

    Sounds like you’re copying and pasting the OAuth headers from the Twitter Dev docs instead of calculating them with every new query. I think the docs use NASA as an example search query.

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