Twitter API changes

Question

Twitter API changes

xxKeith20xx opened this issue 6 years ago · 47 comments

We have connection problem with twitter stream API right now :(
The Site Streams and User Streams endpoints have been turned off. Please migrate to alternate APIs. See https://t.co/usss

So... is that the end for apps like this? ;c

karelbilek commented 6 years ago

RIP

Answer 1 · 2018-08-18T06:01:43.000Z

looks like it :(

Answer 2 · 2018-08-20T16:59:32.000Z

I don't wish to over dramatize the situation but it feels like I have just been kicked in the CLI.

Answer 3 · 2018-08-22T17:47:21.000Z

So is this the end of that? I can't believe that they would just do this, are there no alternatives?

Answer 4 · 2018-08-22T22:40:46.000Z

Not a solution but more of an alternative to Twitter all-together. There are a few Mastodon command line apps that are in active development: https://github.com/ihabunek/toot .

Answer 5 · 2018-08-24T22:14:32.000Z

I suppose if someone is up for refactoring the api calls, https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/api-reference/site-stream

Answer 6 · 2018-08-25T18:45:01.000Z

a couple CLI alternatives which work for now at least..
https://github.com/bear/python-twitter #twitter -R 4 -r 'refresh every 4 seconds'
https://github.com/piroor/tweet.sh #./tweet.sh post 'status message'
https://github.com/oysttyer/oysttyer # http://oysttyer.github.io/docs/userGuide.html#commands-user

Answer 7 · 2018-08-28T02:32:30.000Z

The account activity now is premium or business only, and the subscription price is just ridiculous. More info here:
https://twitter.com/orakaro/status/1030785576973217792

Basically it is impossible for an opensource project.

Right now we can still use RS as a commandline client, but the stream need to be reconsidered carefully. Sorry about all of this.

Answer 8 · 2018-08-28T07:27:19.000Z

Is it possible to force RS to automatically refresh timeline every, say, minute or so? Realtime streaming is not that important afterall. Also we can change the name to just Rainbow :)

Answer 9 · 2018-08-28T14:17:48.000Z

Seems a possible workout. It has 15 requests per window rate limit. So basically refreshing per minutes should work

Answer 10 · 2018-09-13T21:22:39.000Z

Ouch. I was about to post an issue here - and ran across this issue ticket. I am actually very surprised that they are cutting these endpoints. After all - they do have a ton of servers to balance all these requests. Any idea why they did that?

Requesting per minute to keep the stream updated is at least an alternative - less interactive, but it at least allows to keep most of the behaviour. Direct Messages don't seem to be that affected by the API changes, at least not in the same way as the streams are. Which is...kinda confusing.

Answer 11 · 2018-09-26T08:49:12.000Z

Anything further on a workaround or plan of action? Is this dead in the water and if so, what alternatives, if any? Thanks.

Answer 12 · 2018-09-26T10:42:50.000Z

See the link about the Twitter API that has been posted here and shown in the console too. Twitter "gracefuly" disabled streaming APIs - so even if there were alternatives, well, then there "were" alternatives. With the streaming API gone, all we can do is set a refresh time - and thats it.

…

Am 26.09.2018 um 10:49 schrieb John Piers Cilliers ***@***.***>: Anything further on a workaround or plan of action? Is this dead in the water and if so, what alternatives, if any? Thanks. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#271 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACwnlOyn5RgYO58BrWFpPy97O6hmOAv8ks5uez-PgaJpZM4WAR0E>.

Answer 13 · 2018-09-26T11:01:07.000Z

Is it possible to set auto-refresh time in current version? I'd like it to refresh every minute, and preferably with no warnings from Twitter about Site Streams have been turned off. Ideally those ID's showed after refresh has to be unique. Is it hard to implement?

See the link about the Twitter API that has been posted here and shown in the console too. Twitter "gracefuly" disabled streaming APIs - so even if there were alternatives, well, then there "were" alternatives. With the streaming API gone, all we can do is set a refresh time - and thats it.

Answer 14 · 2018-09-27T22:28:02.000Z

I've been curious if this is the reason why i'm unable to run rainbowstream via the command alone. Whenever I enter 'rainbowstream', it returns the following

You are running latest version (1.4.0)

We have connection problem with twitter REST API right now :(
Rate limit exceeded

I thought this may have been related to generating a new authentication, but is has persisted each time I have tried launching or reinstalling/re-authenticating over multiple days. Is there a specific command I have to use to launch now that the old API is dead? I couldn't get any like 'home' to work as rainbowstream fails to load and returns me to the zsh prompt after that message.

Can make a separate issue if this is unrelated, but seeing as how others may still be able to use theirs I wondered if it had any relation to the API switch.

Answer 15 · 2018-10-01T21:52:22.000Z

I've been curious if this is the reason why i'm unable to run rainbowstream via the command alone. Whenever I enter 'rainbowstream', it returns the following

You are running latest version (1.4.0)
We have connection problem with twitter REST API right now :(
Rate limit exceeded

I thought this may have been related to generating a new authentication, but is has persisted each time I have tried launching or reinstalling/re-authenticating over multiple days. Is there a specific command I have to use to launch now that the old API is dead? I couldn't get any like 'home' to work as rainbowstream fails to load and returns me to the zsh prompt after that message.

Can make a separate issue if this is unrelated, but seeing as how others may still be able to use theirs I wondered if it had any relation to the API switch.

I'm interested in the answer too xD

Answer 16 · 2018-10-03T14:23:19.000Z

As a holdover for those of us that can't use rainbowstream to stream our twitter timelines to the terminal: https://www.howtogeek.com/117306/how-to-follow-a-twitter-feed-in-your-rss-reader/

Then use a terminal rss reader

Answer 17 · 2018-10-19T16:18:36.000Z

This is sad

Answer 18 · 2018-10-24T18:42:15.000Z

So if I'm following what's going on correctly, Twitter discontinued the "stream" APIs, but the REST based APIs are still accessible. If true and the lack of the stream APIs are just the reality of things now, shouldn't the focus going forward be connecting the client to the available APIs and moving from a stream experience to a interval based "polling" experience. I will morn the loss of real time updates and curse Twitter for removing them, but I think rainbowstream is still a valuable enough command line tool to just abandon. The patient can still be saved!

…

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:19 AM silvernode ***@***.***> wrote: This is sad — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#271 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAUO2c9JXWHiwDo_qRbEjTBQlB9Ia3zbks5umft1gaJpZM4WAR0E> .

Answer 19 · 2019-01-07T01:24:01.000Z

Been using oysttyer for the past couple months and I find now that I just miss most of my tweets, RS was soo much better, please tell me someone is working on making this poll for changes rather than using the streaming api ???

Answer 20 · 2019-01-10T12:03:48.000Z

Nobody seems to be working on that.

Answer 21 · 2019-01-17T23:43:05.000Z

bitlbee's twitter is not too shabby
*New tweets will only be shown once every 60 seconds

Answer 22 · 2019-01-25T14:08:32.000Z

plz let the rainbow stream again

Answer 23 · 2019-01-29T02:34:27.000Z

R.I.P. this is bad joke!

Answer 24 · 2019-01-29T03:30:35.000Z

@orakaro I am considering rewriting this myself to use polling, would like to know your opinion on it first though as it obviously breaks the whole streaming concept idea behind rainbowstream.. please let us know if you plan to support this product in the future !?

Answer 25 · 2019-02-06T09:28:11.000Z

Sorry for so late reply. Yes I will definitely appreciate someone can make polling happens. Just send PR!

Answer 26 · 2019-03-07T16:43:57.000Z

So anything further, or is this the end of Rainbowstream? Sorry to bump this.

Answer 27 · 2019-03-07T17:40:27.000Z

I'm currently looking into this, I assume otheras are as well. If I get anywhere I'll send a PR.

Answer 28 · 2019-03-08T19:16:52.000Z

So depressing to google "twitter linux terminal clients", come across rainbowstream, get excited by all the great reviews, follow the instructions (spent extra time resolving the missing .rainbow_config.json issue), running the app, getting excited by the interface, getting the "connection problem with API now" error, googling that, and only coming across this thread at the end of that whole process. Would be AWESOME to have the current status (and maybe a link to this thread) here:
https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream

and maybe here:
https://rainbowstream.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'm so excited by this project, I'll be watching this space for updates! 🤞

Answer 29 · 2019-03-09T06:43:50.000Z

You are not the only one, I spent hours to setup it with my custom linux and then I got the very same warning from Twitter API. Hopefully `rainbowstream` will reborn from ashes soon! ;D

…

On 3/9/19, Jeff Beam ***@***.***> wrote: So depressing to google "twitter linux terminal clients", come across rainbowstream, get excited by all the great reviews, follow the instructions (spent extra time resolving the missing .rainbow_config.json issue), running the app, getting excited by the interface, getting the "connection problem with API now" error, googling that, and only coming across this thread at the end of that whole process. Would be AWESOME to have the current status (and maybe a link to this thread) here: https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream and maybe here: https://rainbowstream.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I'm so excited by this project, I'll be watching this space for updates! 🤞 -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #271 (comment)

-- PGP Key ID: 0x3F75FA35

Answer 30 · 2019-04-05T06:49:38.000Z

@threecleartones @deepcell Really sorry about that. Updated README 🙇

Answer 31 · 2019-05-06T18:10:40.000Z

So, approaching 10 months since Rainbowstream lost it's ability to update itself realtime, is anything further going to transpire or is this truly dead in the water? Thanks.

Answer 32 · 2019-06-01T22:43:36.000Z

Sounds like it's officially dead to me which is sad.
I might be wrong but it looks like Twitter is wanting to charge for API access for certain things now which would mean Rainbowstream would no longer be free.

I wish they would just put a bullet through it's head already instead of keeping us holding on.

It was the best twitter client hands down no matter what platform/OS you used.

Answer 33 · 2019-06-01T22:57:00.000Z

I say that Rainbowstream should rebrand and Target open alternatives to Twitter like Mastodon and stop relying on centralized services like Twitter that tend to change their mind on a dime. I think that's the only way to keep this project somewhat alive.

…

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 15:43 MystikSpiral ***@***.***> wrote: Sounds like it's officially dead to me which is sad. I might be wrong but it looks like Twitter is wanting to charge for API access for certain things now which would mean Rainbowstream would no longer be free. I wish they would just put a bullet through it's head already instead of keeping us holding on. It was the best twitter client hands down no matter what platform/OS you used. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#271?email_source=notifications&email_token=AADCENDRZ45BM4CAAXGZCZTPYL3RZA5CNFSM4FQBDUCKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODWXJ4SY#issuecomment-497983051>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADCENDHB6YFM56ZI6Z4DPTPYL3RZANCNFSM4FQBDUCA> .

Answer 34 · 2019-06-02T03:19:15.000Z

@silvernode that already exists as tootstream, which was inspired by rainbowstream https://github.com/magicalraccoon/tootstream

Answer 35 · 2019-06-03T06:12:44.000Z

Yeah, I use tootstream though I still like Rainbowstream much better because of the UX which is not exactly the same as tootstream.

…

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 20:19 StarlitGhost ***@***.***> wrote: @silvernode <https://github.com/silvernode> that already exists as tootstream, which was inspired by rainbowstream https://github.com/magicalraccoon/tootstream — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#271?email_source=notifications&email_token=AADCEND37RS36ZYONCWRSD3PYM33RA5CNFSM4FQBDUCKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODWXM3DA#issuecomment-497995148>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADCENDVI55Q67F6WJXFHMTPYM33RANCNFSM4FQBDUCA> .

Answer 36 · 2019-11-21T10:50:42.000Z

Hello guys, here is a good news: I succeed in an attemp to make RainbowStream's stream live again using a polling strategy! Here is some notes

Live again from version 1.5.0 🎉
It currently using a polling to home each 90 seconds. The Rate Limit for home command itself is 15 times per 15 minutes. This 90 seconds value is not configurable yet.
I also fixed direct messages 🎉. It was broken due to Twitter API Spec changes.
There still is a problem with positions calculation in terminal colors and Readline. It reproduces in my Python 3.7.4 environment.

Answer 37 · 2019-11-21T11:00:23.000Z

Let's consider this as a beta state. Please report any bug/problem 🙏

Answer 38 · 2019-11-21T13:51:30.000Z

Awesome news.

Answer 39 · 2019-11-22T01:49:39.000Z

Works great! Thank you!

Answer 40 · 2019-11-27T04:04:03.000Z

So amazing! Thanks!!

Answer 41 · 2020-04-02T23:17:57.000Z

Thanks. It is working just great. I actually prefer that it is not updating the stream in real-time. It is much more readable during periods of high activity.

Answer 42 · 2020-04-27T17:49:55.000Z

I'm getting 'Rate limit exceeded'. It even hasn't started in the first place.

Answer 43 · 2020-05-04T12:35:33.000Z

i am having the same problem...rate limit exceeded

Answer 44 · 2020-08-25T18:33:54.000Z

Also getting rate limit exceeded

Answer 45 · 2020-11-25T07:57:51.000Z

Great Work!!

Answer 46 · 2022-09-30T11:54:15.000Z

still having this problem