python-tweepy with oauth -error code 301-failed to fetch username

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I am new to python and trying to make a program which pots tweets on a particular user's timeline I am clueless on debugging this. Not much help online. This looks simple enough, not sure why it is not working. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am using python 2.7.3

consumer_token = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_secret = ''

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_token,consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token,access_secret)

api  = tweepy.API(auth)
print api.me().name
api.update_status('Hello -tweepy + oauth!')

I tried suggestions from this post Error using api.update_status method in tweepy using Oauth2

File "C:\Python27\tweet_fetch.py", line 22, in twitter_fetch
    print api.me().name
File "C:\Python27\Lib\tweepy-1.2\tweepy\api.py", line 303, in me
    raise TweepError('Failed to fetch username: %s' % e)
TweepError: Failed to fetch username: Twitter error response: status code = 301

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-03 19:51:08Z

1

This was a bug in tweepy-1.2 version. Just upgrade to the latest (2.0) tweepy version:

pip install tweepy --upgrade

or

pip uninstall tweepy
pip install tweepy

Hope that helps.

answered Jun 3, 2013 at 19:51

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Supriya K Over a year ago

I don't have pip installed. But, I manually downloaded tweepy library and updated it. Auth is working now. Thanks a ton!

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