Stream failed if using oauth authentication if track keyword has space character

[terrybleger]

So many people thought it was the urllib or httplib fault, but twitter always response 401 Unauthorized.

'i have space character' 'i+have+space+character' 'i%20have%20space%20character'

It's a total useless to escape or even unescape since it was not the urllib problem.

"" total fail if there is any space character inside track "" auth = tweepy.auth.OAuthHandler('consumer_key', 'consumer_secret') auth.set_access_token('oauth_token', 'oauth_secret')

"" works like a charm but twitter said they will eradicate this using "" auth = tweepy.auth.BasicAuthHandler('my_user', 'my_pass')

stream = Stream(auth, StreamListener()) stream.filter(follow=None, track='i have space character', async=False, locations=None, count=None)

[coldclimate]

I can confirm this works, but is this a tweepy problem or a twitter streaming api problem?

[ChoppedLiverMM]

I've been reading on this the last few days, and best I can tell, the Twitter Streaming API requires Basic Auth, not Oauth. I'd be willing to bet there is something ugly in the backend and the Streaming API will take a while to follow the rest if the Twitterverse.

[silviojr]

Well, this is probably the best solution. But the problem is: the url is not being encoded properly - I mean, whitespaces in the urls should be replaced by "%20" but they are being replaced by "+". So I edited the steaming.py file (in my ubuntu system it is located at /usr/local/lib/python/dist-packages/tweepy-1.8-py2.7.egg/tweepy/streaming.py). After the following line: self.body = urllib.urlencode(self.parameters)

I added: self.body = self.body.replace("+","%20") I'm noob to tweepy and python. You'll probably find better solutions.

[joshthecoder]

Committed a fix for this into master branch. Should be available in Release 1.10.