Issue with Search => Twitter::Error: 399: unexpected token at

[Shehbaz Ahmed]

Hello,

I am facing a strange issue and it has driven me nuts, When I do a search like CLIENT.search("@BarackObama", :result_type => "recent")  sometime it returns the results but 80 percent of time it gives error Twitter::Error: 399: unexpected token at some location (location is different everytime as different tweets on different days). My investigation shows that when this error appears , the JSON response I receive from twitter is incomplete/invalid. That is a very strange issue and I am not sure how to fix this random issue.

I am using:

twitter (5.11.0)

      addressable (~> 2.3)

      buftok (~> 0.2.0)

      equalizer (~> 0.0.9)

      faraday (~> 0.9.0)

      http (~> 0.6.0)

      http_parser.rb (~> 0.6.0)

      json (~> 1.8)

      memoizable (~> 0.4.0)

      naught (~> 1.0)

      simple_oauth (~> 0.2.0)

Thanks for the help in advance.

[Shehbaz Ahmed]

Complete error:

Twitter::Error: 399: unexpected token at '{"metadata":{"iso_language_code":"en","result_type":"recent"},"created_at":"Mon Sep 29 08:45:37 +0000 2014","id":516509088033673216,"id_str":"516509088033673216","text":"PM @narendramodi to meet US President @BarackObama early on Tuesday morning IST #ModiMeetsAmerica http:\/\/t.co\/5Q0aomC8wi","source":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter Web Client\u003c\/a\u003e","truncated":false,"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"user":{"id":6509832,"id_str":"6509832","name":"CNN-IBN News","screen_name":"ibnlive","location":"India","description":"Latest news alerts from India","url":"http:\/\/t.co\/EW7XUkaufU","entities":{"url":{"urls":[{"url":"http:\/\/t.co\/EW7XUkaufU","expanded_url":"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com","display_url":"ibnlive.in.com","indices":[0,22]}]},"description":{"urls":[]}},"protected":false,"followers_count":997806,"friends_count":627,"listed_count":4611,"created_at":"Fri Jun 01 20:31:01 +0000 2007","favourites_count":93,"utc_offset":19800,"time_zone":"New Delhi","geo_enabled":true,"verified":true,"statuses_count":243105,"lang":"en","contributors_enabled":false,"is_translator":false,"is_translation_enabled":false,"profile_background_color":"9AE4E8","profile_background_image_url":"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_background_images\/357644151\/twitter-bg-large-ipad-1_1_.jpg","profile_background_image_url_https":"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_background_images\/357644151\/twitter-bg-large-ipad-1_1_.jpg","profile_background_tile":false,"profile_image_url":"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/476985867873968128\/m59j9YS5_normal.jpeg","profile_image'

from /Users/apple/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/twitter-5.11.0/lib/twitter/rest/client.rb:112:in `rescue in request'