Oauth Rate Limit 150 per hour?

[Correa Denzil]

Hi,

I am performing OAuth to sign my requests. I am not developing a web
app. I am trying to harvest some user data. Here's what I do :

import oauth2 as oauth
import time

CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
access_key = 'xxxxxxxxxx'
access_secret_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

consumer = oauth.Consumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
token = oauth.Token(access_key, access_secret_key)

client = oauth.Client(consumer)

# Set the API end point
url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1'

params = {'oauth_version': "1.0",
'oauth_nonce': oauth.generate_nonce(),
'oauth_timestamp': int(time.time()),
'oauth_token': access_key,
'oauth_consumer_key': consumer.key,
'screen_name' : 'denzil_correa'
}

req = oauth.Request(method="GET", url=url, parameters=params)

# Sign the request.
signature_method = oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()
req.sign_request(signature_method, consumer, token)

### Make the auth request ###

test = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.json'

resp, content = client.request(test, "GET")

print resp
print content # prints 'ok'

Here's the output:

{"reset_time":"Mon Jun 06 14:54:50 +0000
2011","remaining_hits":132,"hourly_limit":150,"reset_time_in_seconds":1307372090}

Am I missing something?

--Regards,
Denzil

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Is that Python? Anyway, not relevant.

1. You aren't signing using the proper url.
2. You aren't using anything related to the signature on the request (req).

Tom

[Correa Denzil]

Is that Python? : Yes

1. You aren't signing using the proper url.

Is the end point URL wrong?

2. You aren't using anything related to the signature on the request (req)

I am a newbie to Python. I am trying to dabble using OAuth. I
understand the OAuth flow but somehow what I am doing seems a bit
tangential to what OAuth is meant for. What should I do to rectify it
?

--Regards,
Denzil

[Tom van der Woerdt]

1. You don't sign the test variable, you sign the URL variable, which
isn't an endpoint.
2. You don't use the req variable to make the request, but instead you
create a new connection which is completely unrelated to the signed request.

Tom

[Correa Denzil]

Tom :

Thanks for the reply.

1. You don't sign the test variable, you sign the URL variable, which
isn't an endpoint.

I have changed the same

2. You don't use the req variable to make the request, but instead you
create a new connection which is completely unrelated to the signed
request.

I don't understand this point. What's the change am I supposed to make ?

I have opened up a gist for easier editing : https://gist.github.com/1010430

--Regards,
Denzil

[Tom van der Woerdt]

In the "Make the auth request" part you make a request using "client"
instead of the already prepared and signed "req" variable. You should
use "req" to make the request.

Tom

[Correa Denzil]

Tom :

Are you sure? This gives me a :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "oauth_test.py", line 41, in <module>
resp, content = req.request(url, "GET")
AttributeError: 'Request' object has no attribute 'request'

--Regards,
Denzil

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Well, of course, don't literally replace the variables, but figure out a
way to use the req object. I don't know anything about that object so I
can't help you there.

Tom

[Correa Denzil]

Well, it turns out it's not the case. Both the points you mentioned
weren't the issue as I see it.

The issue was while I was creating the client I wasn't supplying the
token. Check Line 20 in the gist.

https://gist.github.com/1010430

--Regards,
Denzil

[Tom van der Woerdt]

In that case, try removing everything related to the req variable. Seems
it's all unrelated to the actual request (unless the oauth library is
very badly designed, of course). Line 22 all the way up to 35.

Tom

[Correa Denzil]

Yes, it works. Thanks :-)

--Regards,
Denzil

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