I have a using Tweepy, a python wrapper for Twitter.I am writing a small GUI application in Python which updates my twitter account.
Currently, I am just testing if the I can get connected to Twitter, hence used test() call. I am behind Squid Proxy server.What changes should I make to snippet so that I should get my work done.
Setting http_proxy in bash shell did not help me.
def printTweet(self):
#extract tweet string
tweet_str = str(self.ui.tweet_txt.toPlainText()) ;
#tweet string extracted.
self.ui.tweet_txt.clear() ;
self.tweet_on_twitter(str);
def tweet_on_twitter(self,my_tweet) :
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET);
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET) ;
api = tweepy.API(auth) ;
if api.test() :
print 'Test successful' ;
else :
print 'Test unsuccessful';
I guess you should set 'https_proxy' instead.
On my linux, I use this:
> export HTTPS_PROXY="http://xxxx:8888"
before running my Tweepy script.
Tweep uses 'requests' package for sending request, read http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies for more.
The proxy support in tweepy is severely lacking; there is a patch available that aims to fix that problem.
The patch switches Tweepy from using httplib directly to using urllib2 instead, which means it'd honour the http_proxy environment variable.
EDIT: Turns out this isn't a viable answer, but I'm leaving it here for reference
Since a quick glance of the code shows that tweepy is using urllib2.urlopen & co., the easiest is possibly to just override the default opener...
# 'x.x.x.x' = IP of squid server
your_squid_server = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'x.x.x.x', 'https': 'x.x.x.x'})
new_opener = urllib2.build_opener(your_squid_server)
urllib2.install_opener(new_opener)
Haven't get an environment to check that at the moment though...
Do the above before importing tweepy to make sure the new opener is in effect
this is an old question, but hopefully this helps.
https://bitbucket.org/sakito/tweepy provides tweepy with urllib merged into it; the proxy settings works well. there is a little problem with the stream (in my case, at least), but it is usable with a little tweak.
