Twitter OAuth Error

[Pepita]

Hey everybody,

I'm trying to get twitter data via the palladian websearcher (tried it with the provided sample workflow: TableCreator-WebSearcher which already includes some data). As soon as I try to retrieve tweets myself, after following the instructions here, I get an authentification error:

[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]}

or the whole error:

_{( HTTP error 400 for request HttpRequest [url=https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json, method=GET, headers={Authorization=OAuth oauth_signature="aSIqWyh5x%2BmFkpaQpSRvBeuRWlU%3D", oauth_version="1.0", oauth_nonce="b2081d808ada6a6f4ac715cfecf55df6ab6c57ff", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_consumer_key="cMj8uuKUkOQarlwRahK2zdfT0", oauth_token="%202522309557-ONeDuZI4pH01lvtUcLtqsjPZmuJQPMcUgAUvfRn", oauth_timestamp="1402909044"}, parameters={count=10, q=#allin, lang=en}]: {"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]})}

I tried renewing my access tokens in the Twitter Application but I keep getting the same error.

I might be doing something completely wrong (or more likely missing something as I followed the instructions precisely).

I appreciate any help, thank you!

[qqilihq]

Hi Pepita,

looks like there is a superfluous space character at the beginning of your OAuth access token. Can you double check the input in the preferences?

Hope that helps, if not, let me know.

Best,
Philipp

 

[Pepita]

geez. I double checked for empty spaces inbetween and at the end but never guessed there could be one in front (as all the tokens had one space character in front). I feel incredibly stupid now. Thank you!

[qqilihq]

fyi: No worries, the same problem also happened to me once :) To avoid those pitfalls, newer versions will strip leading/trailing whitespace automatically in the API key prefs.

Best,
Philipp