get_timeline() retryonratelimit = T not working for me

[ValweM]

Hi there,

I tried to use your great function get_timeline() but unfortunately the retryonratelime = TRUE is not working for me. Maybe it's some bug?

Thanks for the help!

[llrs]

Could you provide more information: What does it mean it is not working for me? Do you get an error, a message, nothing? What code and rtweet version are you using?

[ValweM]

Thanks for your quick answer. I used this code:

timeline <- get_timeline(x, n =3200, retryonratelimit = T, include_rts =T)

If I run this code, after a while, I get an Error:
"Warnung: Rate limit exceeded - 88"

Edit: I ran the code yesterday, there was no problem.

[llrs]

retryonratelimit is not a parameter of get_timeline on version 0.7.0. Are you using the premium API or a modified/older version of rtweet?

[ValweM]

Yes I'm working with version 0.7.0. That is odd, on thursday I could extract the same tweets of the same number of accounts without an error. So this means I have to basically use a loop to extract the tweets of more than 52 accounts? Seen like here: #136 ?

[llrs]

Yes, basically with the APIv1 you can't get around this, that I know of. Maybe the new API of twitter can handle this, but it is not currently supported on rtweet

[Arf9999]

The endpoint to the API for get_timeline has a rate limit of 900 requests per 15 minutes. Each request will deliver up to 200 statuses. So for each timeline of 3200 statuses (the max the API will deliver), you'll use 16 requests. So the maximum that you'll be able to pull in 15 minutes is around 56 accounts if all have 3200 or more statuses.

To overcome this issue, you can loop and create your own ratelimit pause using the rate_limits("get_timeline") function. The "reset" column will give you a report on how long it is until the rate_limit is reset.