I'm trying to do anything at all with Twitter API v2, with not much success so far.
import tweepy
Client = tweepy.Client(consumer_key="...", consumer_secret="...", access_token="...",
access_token_secret="...", wait_on_rate_limit=True)
This code raises no errors, so authentication appears to be successful. Now I try to retrieve the list of followers:
followers = []
for item in tweepy.Cursor(Client.get_users_followers("...")).items():
followers.append(item._json)
That results in an error:
Unauthorized: 401 Unauthorized
When attempting to create a tweet:
Client.create_tweet(text="Python test.")
That also results in an error:
Forbidden: 403 Forbidden
Your client app is not configured with the appropriate oauth1 app permissions for this endpoint.
It appears that it was possible in the past to resolve the "Forbidden" error this way (also this way, though I think it's the exact same thing), but the edit in the former post states that "You are now required to ask for Elevated access if you want to have read + write permission. You only have read access from the V2 API Endpoints as of today". I tried to find out online what the elevated access is, and if this post is to be believed, it is no longer a thing, and now the only option is buying Basic for a $100/month.
So my questions are:
- is it true that since recently the only way of getting writing privileges is buying a subscription, and otherwise Twitter API is strictly read-only?
- even so, retrieving the list of followers is a read-only command. And yet for whatever reason it also results in the "Unauthorized" error. Is there any way to get the list of followers without paying for the subscription?
