API Auth Fails With Code 50, Oct. 14

[shgnplaatjies]

Description

• Bug is in the authentication script. I've added an exception handler to show the error code.
• The error code is Code 50 - User DNE, and Code 404.

Steps to reproduce.

• Open the main directory.
• Run "python auth.py" or "python twitter_scraper.py"

Time of occurrence.

• Roughly 11pm 14th October. (I spent about 10 minutes writing this doc, and about an 45 minutes of undocumented debugging)

Expected Result

• Code should print "Authentication successful and return the user's ID"

Actual Result

• Tweepy returns HTTP Error code 404 and error code 50

Dependencies, implementations and/or requirements whose development may be affected by this bug.

• All subsequent API calls rely on the authentication script to complete.

Link to original user story, acceptance test, or requirement (or copy pasted)

• 1 (this is the first issue tho. I didn't create a user story and acceptance tests for this one)

Assignees

• @shgnplaatjies was assigned to work on is user story.

Bonus!

Additional conditions that are required to reproduce.

• Using "GUCCIPS5" API keys might be a cause

User data of users who experienced the bug.

• Using the "GUCCIPS5" twitter server on my personal account @squiggldiggl

[shgnplaatjies]

I haven't committed new code to the code base since encountering this bug. Instead I've been debugging for a while and created this issue once I felt like this bug was beginning to take up a lot of time.

I've added a new branch (directly from this issue) and I will carry my stashed changes to this new branch attached to this issue.

I will pull request the clean, bug free feature to the code base (or work on another feature on the main and debug this later)

[shgnplaatjies]

Solved issue.

Bug was in line 14, the print statement to log successful authentication. There was an invalid call to the api for api.get_user() which does not make sense in this context.