Bug 477980 – dev-python/python-twitter - twitter.TwitterError: [{u'message': u'The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Teika kazura 2013-07-24 08:58:41 UTC]

* Bug definition:
dev-python/python-twitter is an obsolete package, and can be deleted anytime. It only supports twitter API v1 which twitter.com doesn't provide any more.

Bug 300967 is now obsolete.

* Background:
Twitter.com used to provide two incompatible APIs, v1 and v1.1. v1 is not available any more.[1]

[1]:
  https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-is-retired
New API v1.1 was released in Sep 2012:
  https://dev.twitter.com/blog/current-status-api-v1.1

This package provides python binding(?) for twitter API v1. So apps which rely on this package do not work any more. See the attached sample code and its error message for example.

The package development is stopped since Dec 2011:
  http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/list

* Other packages:
Users of this package, dev-python/python-twitter, can consider dev-python/tweepy or dev-python/twitter as replacements. Both are actively developed.

x11-plugins/pidgin-mbpurple and x11-plugins/prpltwtr are both inactive, and their twitter supports are obsolete now, supporting only API v1. However, they also support other microblogs, and I can't say anything about them.

All other packages supporting twitter (according to "eix -S twitter") are actively developed.

Thanks.

[Comment 1 Teika kazura 2013-07-24 09:01:17 UTC]

Created attachment 354070 [details]
Sample code to generate an error.

Run this code, and you'll see the following error. (Note especially the last line.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./all.py", line 11, in <module>
    main()
  File "./all.py", line 8, in main
    statuses = twitter.Api().GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=1)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/twitter.py", line 2721, in GetUserTimeline
    data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(json)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/twitter.py", line 3869, in _ParseAndCheckTwitter
    self._CheckForTwitterError(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/twitter.py", line 3894, in _CheckForTwitterError
    raise TwitterError(data['errors'])
twitter.TwitterError: [{u'message': u'The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview.', u'code': 68}]

[Comment 2 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2013-07-24 12:19:34 UTC]

I'm not convinced. I just updated it to 1.0 in June, which includes support for v.1.1. The repository no longer lives at Google Code, but now lives at Github.

[Comment 3 Teika kazura 2013-07-26 01:56:50 UTC]

Anyway, python-twitter-0.8.5.ebuild is obsolete, which supports the obsolete API, and should be deleted.

But sorry, Dirkjan, for my poor report, and thanks for your effort in Gentoo.