[BUG] get_user_timeline inconsistently returns Error in make_query(url = endpoint_url, ...) something went wrong. Status code: 400

Please confirm the following

[X] I have searched the existing issues
[X] The behaviour of the program is deviated from what is described in the documentation.
[X] I can reproduce this problem for more than one time.
[X] This is NOT a 3-digit error -- it does not display an error message like something went wrong. Status code: 400.
[X] This is a 3-digit error and I have consulted the Understanding API errors vignette and the suggestions do not help.

Describe the bug

Hi I am trying to use get_user_timeline() with my set of user that i got

data_tidy<-bind_tweets(data_path = "data", output_format = "tidy")
users<-as_tibble(unique(data_tidy$author_id))
users_short<-users$value

The same step runs with no issues one time or produces the error below. The step is:

user_timelines<-get_user_timeline(users_short[1201:1400],
                                  start_tweets = "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z",
                                  end_tweets = "2022-01-09T00:00:00Z",
                                  data_path = "user_timelines_new10__",
                                  n= Inf
)

The error I am getting from occasionally is:

Error in make_query(url = endpoint_url, params = params, bearer_token = bearer_token,  : 
  something went wrong. Status code: 400

No further details on what exactly is wrong...

When i split my batch and run it not in users_short[1201:1400] but it smaller batches it works (at times again with the same intermittent error).

How to fix this?

Thank you

Expected Behavior

to collect data as expected or at least provide more details on the error - i believe it is more likely Twitter API limitations related

Steps To Reproduce

users<-read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maria-pro/daniel/main/users.csv")

users_short<-users$value

ser_timelines<-get_user_timeline(users_short[1201:1400], start_tweets = "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z", end_tweets = "2022-01-09T00:00:00Z", data_path = "user_timelines_new10__", n= Inf )

Environment

R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Anything else?

No response

cjbarrie / academictwitteR