pythontweepytwitter-api-v2

Tweepy API: unable to get queries to return user_fields

I've got a python flask app whose job is to work with the Twitter V2.0 API. I got to using the Tweepy API in my app because I was having difficulty cold coding the 3 legged auth flow. Anyway, since I got that working, I'm now running into difficulties executing some basic queries, like get_me() and get_user()

This is my code:


    client = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key=private.API_KEY,
    consumer_secret=private.API_KEY_SECRET,
    access_token=access_token,
    access_token_secret=access_token_secret)

    user = client.get_me(expansions='author_id', user_fields=['username','created_at','location'])
    print(user)
    return('success')

And this is invariably the error: tweepy.errors.BadRequest: 400 Bad Request The expansions query parameter value [author_id] is not one of [pinned_tweet_id]

Per the Twitter docs for this endpoint, this should certainly work...I fail to understand why I the 'pinned_tweet_id' expansion is the particular issue.

I'm left wondering if I'm missing something basic here or if Tweepy is just a POS and I should considering rolling my own queries like I originally intended.

Solution

  • The solution is to drop the 'expansions' kwag and leave 'user_fields' as is. I was further confused by the fact that printing the returned user object does not show the requested user_fields as part of the data attribute. You have to explicitly access them through the data attribute, as below.

    code

    result