Rate limit exceeded

Question

I ran my code that get some tweets with number = 50000 tweets but after getting some of them i got this error . I reviewed the below links in the error message but couldn\'t get

Answer 1

in twitter4j there is RateLimitStatus object. You can access this object after some api calls. For example:

User user = twitter.showUser(userId);
user.getRateLimitStatus();
//OR
IDs followerIDs = twitter.getFollowersIDs(user.getScreenName(), -1);
followerIDs.getRateLimitStatus();
//OR
QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
result.getRateLimitStatus();

And maybe you can use a function to handle rate limit like this:

private void handleRateLimit(RateLimitStatus rateLimitStatus) {
    //throws NPE here sometimes so I guess it is because rateLimitStatus can be null and add this condition
    if (rateLimitStatus != null) {
        int remaining = rateLimitStatus.getRemaining();
        int resetTime = rateLimitStatus.getSecondsUntilReset();
        int sleep = 0;
        if (remaining == 0) {
            sleep = resetTime + 1; //adding 1 more seconds
        } else {
            sleep = (resetTime / remaining) + 1; //adding 1 more seconds
        }

        try {
            Thread.sleep(sleep * 1000 > 0 ? sleep * 1000 : 0);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

or maybe this:

private void handleRateLimit(RateLimitStatus rateLimitStatus) {
    int remaining = rateLimitStatus.getRemaining();
    if (remaining == 0) {
        int resetTime = rateLimitStatus.getSecondsUntilReset() + 5;
        int sleep = (resetTime * 1000);
        try {
            Thread.sleep(sleep > 0 ? sleep : 0);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Hope this helps.

Any other/better methods would also be appreciated.