gwibber authentication fail

[cat]

while trying to authenticate twitter in gwibber in Ubuntu 12.04.2 I get the following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter/gtk/twitter/__init__.py", line 148, in on_twitter_auth_title_change
    account_data = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(apireq.to_url()).read())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

P.S. No proxy this time.
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
gwibber version: 3.4.2-0ubuntu2.2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Omar (firestarter)]

It affects me too, Gwibber (Unity Launcher) wasnt showing new twits anymore, so I deleted my account for later creating it again, but now it fails to authenticate, but also Hotot isnt working, can this be a problem with Twitter service itself?
This is shown in log:
2013-06-11 19:54:38,740 - Network Thread-22 : ERROR - HTTP Error for https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json - error code: 410

[Tom Brossman (tom.brossman)]

This is probably a duplicate of #1190479 "Twitter auth does not work. API Change."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/1190479

Should one or the other be closed / marked as duplicates?

[cat (netcat-z)]

I wonder if gwibber is supported at all, because latest version is rewritten and called Friends. My company uses LTS version and gwibber so I need to know if it will be fixed or should I search for a working solution.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

Workaround:

On Quantal (Gwibber 3.6):

Open "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter/gtk/twitter/__init__.py" in gedit as root & change
`API_PREFIX = "https://api.twitter.com/1"` to
`API_PREFIX = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1"`

On Precise (Gwibber 3.4.2):

Same changes will work.

But time to time it tends to throw "sorry that page is not found". However I couldn't able to reproduce it.Unfortunately I am no expert in python, hence I have a hard time to figure out what API change on twitter part causing this.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

Sorry , you should open "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter/__init__.py" as root in gedit.

[cat (netcat-z)]

Unfortunately it doesn't work:

root@precise:/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter# cat __init__.py | grep API
API_PREFIX = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1"
    url = "/".join((API_PREFIX, path))
............................................
Loading plugin for twitter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gwibber/plugins/twitter/gtk/twitter/__init__.py", line 148, in on_twitter_auth_title_change
    account_data = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(apireq.to_url()).read())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 410: Gone

[cat (netcat-z)]

btw I tried restarting gwibber and even reboot.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

@cat On Quantal or Precise? From the log it seems it still tries to authenticate with v1 url instead of v1.1 hence getting http 410 error.

Try removing twitter-account both from gwibber & twitter. Remove gwibber & gwibber-service , reboot, re-install it, change AP_Prefix, re-authorize twitter & finally run "gwibber-service -d" to check if its still getting any error. Meanwhile I try dig deep into the code to see whats really going on.

[cat (netcat-z)]

It's 12.04. I'll try what you say later today. And if you discover anything interesting please keep us informed. I cannot work without gwibber.(now using birdie)..

[cat (netcat-z)]

btw I removed the gwibber account and now when I try to create one and enter the passwd for twitter I get exactly the same error so account cannot be created.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

@cat After removing Gwibber also remove "/usr/share/pyshared/gwibber" & "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber" directories( if they are not already removed automatically). If you are using python3.2 change the path accordingly.

[cat (netcat-z)]

I tried everything you wrote with no luck. Unfortunately it doesn't work. "gwibber-service -d" gives no output and the account cannot be created.