twitteR throws Forbidden error after entering twitter API PIN

Question

I am trying to analyze some tweets using R and twitteR package. The handshake and registration code seems to work properly and I get the authorization link from R. However, when I enter the PIN obtained from https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize I get a "Forbidden Error." Any help is appreciated.

The Code:

TwitterOAuth<-function(){
  reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"
  accessURL <- "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"
  authURL <- "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"
  consumerKey <- "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  consumerSecret <- "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  twitCred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,
                             consumerSecret=consumerSecret,
                             requestURL=reqURL,
                             accessURL=accessURL,
                             authURL=authURL)
  options(RCurlOptions = list(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package =  "RCurl")))
  twitCred$handshake()
  registerTwitterOAuth(twitCred)
}

The Response:

TwitterOAuth() To enable the connection, please direct your web browser to: http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=X0AwET4FXBC7YRIWWN3iF61WFNE1DjxbfibqtfFjgcc
When complete, record the PIN given to you and provide it here: 1998913
Error: Forbidden

My sessionInfo()

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Turkish_Turkey.1254 LC_CTYPE=Turkish_Turkey.1254 LC_MONETARY=Turkish_Turkey.1254 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Turkish_Turkey.1254

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages: [1] twitteR_1.1.7 rjson_0.2.13 ROAuth_0.9.3 digest_0.6.4 RCurl_1.95-4.1 bitops_1.0-6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.0.2

Answer 1

Change your access URL from http to https.

Answer 2

You can follow this step (don't forget, valid URL is use https):

reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"
accessURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"
authURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"
consumerKey <- "Mjn6tdsadsadkasdklad2SV1l"
consumerSecret <- "58Z7Eldsdfaslkf;asldsaoeorjkfksaVCQtvri"
twitCred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,
                             consumerSecret=consumerSecret,
                             requestURL=reqURL,
                             accessURL=accessURL,
                             authURL=authURL)
twitCred$handshake()

After you run this code you will see in R console message like this :

To enable the connection, please direct your web browser to: 
https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=scmVODruosvz6Tdsdadadasdsa
When complete, record the PIN given to you and provide it here:

Just paste the link to your browser then authorize app, last one you will get the PIN code, just copy and paste the PIN code to your R console.

registerTwitterOAuth(twitCred)

R console will show TRUE if you success.

user <- getUser("xxx")
userTimeline(user, n=20, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, includeRts=FALSE)

Answer 3

Based on this blog: http://thinktostart.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/twitter-authentification-with-r/

library(RCurl)
# Set SSL certs globally
options(RCurlOptions = list(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package = "RCurl")))

require(twitteR)
reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"

accessURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"

authURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"

consumerKey <- "yourconsumerkey"

consumerSecret <- "yourconsumersecret"

twitCred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,consumerSecret=consumerSecret,requestURL=reqURL,accessURL=accessURL,authURL=authURL)

twitCred$handshake(cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", package = "RCurl"))

registerTwitterOAuth(twitCred)

Answer 4

I had the same "Error: forbidden" response and haven't resolved it today (although I did previously).

My R script for my Windows 8.1 system also includes this line:

download.file(url="http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem", destfile="cacert.pem")

I found this line online with the comment to it, "this is a necessary step for Windows"

About three days ago I successfully reached Twitter after entering the online PIN number, but today I can't.

Answer 5

Cookies may be the problem: what appears to be the same thing happened to me, which was fixed when I followed the link given by twitcred$handshake() in a different browser; i.e., I had been trying in Safari, but then gave it a try once in Chrome and the PIN that I received in Chrome was accepted without a problem in R.