I use the following code which works sometimes but its unstable , when I run the program sometimes I got error 420 with json parse error which doesnt give you lot of hints how to solve it. any idea what am I doing wrong ?
The error is :
Error getting tweets: Error: Status Code: 420 Error getting tweets: SyntaxError: Unexpected token E in JSON at position 0
var Twitter=require('twitter'); var lclconf = require('../config.json'); var client=new Twitter({ consumer_key: lclconf.twitter.consumer_key, consumer_secret: lclconf.twitter.consumer_secret, access_token_key: lclconf.twitter.access_token_key, access_token_secret: lclconf.twitter.access_token_secret }); stream.on("data", function(data){ console.log(data.id_str); var tweet_id="https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/oembed.json?id="+data.id_str; request.get(tweet_id) .end(function(err,res){ if(err){ console.log("Error from Twitter API: " + err); }else{ //console.log(res.body); io.emit('tweet',res.body); } }); }); stream.on('error', function(err){ console.log("Error getting tweets: "+err); }); io.on('connection', function(client){ client.on("join", function(data){ console.log(data); }); client.emit("join",{"message":"running"}); }); Maybe if there is a way that when the error is occurred ignore it and proceed since now the process is stopped.
Update:
In twitter docs there is info about HTTP 420 but not sure how to fix it ...
2 Answers
Answers 1
HTTP 420 is returned when you are being rate limited.
There is a https://publish.twitter.com/oembed resource URL, that is neither rate limited nor requires authentication. I think it returns the same things that your program expects. You can use that if you pass a query parameter url having the link to tweet. Try making the link like:
"https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=https://twitter.com/"+data.user.screen_name+"/statuses/"+data.id_str For sample data returned by Twitter click here
Answers 2
As per pii_ke's response you should simply modify tweet_id as follows:
var tweet_id = "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=https://twitter.com/" + data.user.screen_name + "/statuses/" + data.id_str; Full modified code you can copy paste:
var Twitter=require('twitter'); var lclconf = require('../config.json'); var client=new Twitter({ consumer_key: lclconf.twitter.consumer_key, consumer_secret: lclconf.twitter.consumer_secret, access_token_key: lclconf.twitter.access_token_key, access_token_secret: lclconf.twitter.access_token_secret }); stream.on("data", function(data){ console.log(data.id_str); var tweet_id = "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=https://twitter.com/" + data.user.screen_name + "/statuses/" + data.id_str; request.get(tweet_id) .end(function(err,res){ if(err){ console.log("Error from Twitter API: " + err); }else{ //console.log(res.body); io.emit('tweet',res.body); } }); }); stream.on('error', function(err){ console.log("Error getting tweets: "+err); }); io.on('connection', function(client){ client.on("join", function(data){ console.log(data); }); client.emit("join",{"message":"running"}); }); 
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