I'm new to Twitters API and Twitter's twitter4j library. I've recently registered an app to be able to use Twitter's API. Twitter has granted me consumer API keys (API key & API secret key), as well as an access token & access token secret.
The problem is, I've been trying to use twitter4j to authenticate into twitter (using the aforementioned keys), but when trying to access any of the APIs resources, I get an error saying I'm not allowed access due to a rate limit. But how can I possibly have reached a rate limit when I've never been able to query the api? :,(
This is what I'm attempting (with sensitive bits replaced by dummy values):
@SpringBootApplication
public class App
{
private static final String CONSUMER_KEY = "FakeConsumerKey";
private static final String CONSUMER_SECRET = "FakeConsumerSecret";
public static void main( String[] args )
{
SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
System.out.println("Making an authentication request to"
+ " retrieve the bearer token...");
OAuth2Token token;
token = getOAuth2Token();
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setApplicationOnlyAuthEnabled(true);
cb.setOAuthConsumerKey(CONSUMER_KEY);
cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret(CONSUMER_SECRET);
cb.setOAuth2TokenType(token.getTokenType());
cb.setOAuth2AccessToken(token.getAccessToken());
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory(cb.build()).getInstance();
try {
System.out.println("My screen name: " + twitter.getScreenName());
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (TwitterException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static OAuth2Token getOAuth2Token()
{
OAuth2Token token = null;
ConfigurationBuilder cb;
cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setApplicationOnlyAuthEnabled(true);
cb.setOAuthConsumerKey(CONSUMER_KEY);
cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret(CONSUMER_SECRET);
try
{
token = new TwitterFactory(cb.build())
.getInstance().getOAuth2Token();
System.out.println("token: " + token.getAccessToken());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Can't get OAuth2 token");
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
}
return token;
}
}
This is the error returned:
403:The request is understood, but it has been refused. An accompanying error message will explain why. This code is used when requests are being denied due to update limits (https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-about-twitter-limits-update-api-dm-and-following).
message - Your credentials do not allow access to this resource
code - 220
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TwitterException{exceptionCode=[9a9caf7a-bf94ba05], statusCode=403, message=Your credentials do not allow access to this resource, code=220, retryAfter=-1, rateLimitStatus=null, version=4.0.6}
at twitter4j.HttpClientImpl.handleRequest(HttpClientImpl.java:164)
at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.request(HttpClientBase.java:57)
at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.get(HttpClientBase.java:75)
at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.fillInIDAndScreenName(TwitterBaseImpl.java:133)
at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.fillInIDAndScreenName(TwitterBaseImpl.java:128)
at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.getScreenName(TwitterBaseImpl.java:108)
at com.vismark.social.twitter.TwitterAccountService.App.main(App.java:41)
Where did I go wrong?