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Added handling for rate limiting error from search api. Now throws

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special exception which includes number of seconds to wait before trying
again.
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Kelly Slemko 2011-11-09 14:42:10 -08:00
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commit f31446fa31
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@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ class APILimit(TwythonError):
def __str__(self):
return repr(self.msg)
class RateLimitError(TwythonError):
"""
Raised when you've hit a rate limit. retry_wait_seconds is the number of seconds to
wait before trying again.
"""
def __init__(self, msg, retry_wait_seconds):
self.msg = msg
self.retry_wait_seconds = int(retry_wait_seconds)
def __str__(self):
return repr(self.msg)
class AuthError(TwythonError):
"""
@ -308,6 +320,11 @@ class Twython(object):
searchURL = Twython.constructApiURL("http://search.twitter.com/search.json", kwargs)
try:
resp, content = self.client.request(searchURL, "GET", headers = self.headers)
if resp.status == 420:
retry_wait_seconds = resp['retry-after']
raise RateLimitError("getSearchTimeline() is being rate limited. Retry after %s seconds." % retry_wait_seconds, retry_wait_seconds)
return simplejson.loads(content.decode('utf-8'))
except HTTPError, e:
raise TwythonError("getSearchTimeline() failed with a %s error code." % `e.code`, e.code)