'Rate limit exceeded', 'code': 88

[nielse...@gmail.com]

Hi all,
I'm writing a bot but getting this error when making a list of followers:
tweepy.error.TweepError: [{'message': 'Rate limit exceeded', 'code': 88}]
My call looks like this:
for friend in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends).items(1):
Even if I set the parameters to 1, I get the error.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

[aless...@jpcreative.co.uk]

I have the same issue ...did u solve it out?

Thanks!

[Jared Nielsen]

No, it's something to do with Cursor.

I found a better solution here: https://github.com/ksturner/ShipItSquirrel

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[aa1r...@gmail.com]

The error you got was Twitter rate-limiting you. This occurs when you make too many requests within a given period.

The solution to this is to stop making requests until Twitter removes the rate-limit. See the docs for more information.