Rate limit reached. Sleeping for:

问题

i'm collecting tweets withe thier replies from Twitter's API to build data set and i'm using tweepy library in python for that,but the problem is that I get this error so much (Rate limit reached. Sleeping for:(any number for sec)) that delays me and I have to collect as many data as possible in the shortest time

I read that twitter has a rate limit of i think 15 requests per 15 minutes or something like that, but on my situation I can only gather a tweet or two tweet until it stops again and sometimes it stops for 15 minutes and then stop again for 15 minutes without giving me give me time between them, I don't know what caused the problem whether it is my code or not?

    # Import the necessary package to process data in JSON format
    try:
        import json
    except ImportError:
        import simplejson as json

    # Import the tweepy library
    import tweepy
    import sys

    # Variables that contains the user credentials to access Twitter API 
    ACCESS_TOKEN = '-'
    ACCESS_SECRET = '-'
    CONSUMER_KEY = '-'
    CONSUMER_SECRET = '-'

    # Setup tweepy to authenticate with Twitter credentials:

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
    auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)

    # Create the api to connect to twitter with your creadentials
    api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True, compression=True)



    file2 = open('replies.csv','w', encoding='utf-8-sig') 

    replies=[]   
    non_bmp_map = dict.fromkeys(range(0x10000, sys.maxunicode + 1), 0xfffd)  
    for full_tweets in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='#عربي',timeout=999999,tweet_mode='extended').items():
        if (not full_tweets.retweeted) and ('RT @' not in full_tweets.full_text):
            for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q='to:'+full_tweets.user.screen_name,result_type='recent',timeout=999999,tweet_mode='extended').items(1000):
                if hasattr(tweet, 'in_reply_to_status_id_str'):
                    if (tweet.in_reply_to_status_id_str==full_tweets.id_str):
                        replies.append(tweet.full_text)
            print(full_tweets._json)
            file2.write("{ 'id' : "+ full_tweets.id_str + "," +"'Replies' : ")  
            for elements in replies:
                    file2.write(elements.strip('\n')+" , ")      
            file2.write("}\n")
            replies.clear()



    file2.close()

$ python code.py > file.csv

Rate limit reached. Sleeping for: 262 

Rate limit reached. Sleeping for: 853

回答1:

Just add this line to the Python script to avoid the sleep:

sleep_on_rate_limit=False

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54354516/rate-limit-reached-sleeping-for

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