Twitter API access denied for posting a simple tweet

Question

Using the below python code, while the authentication is successful, I get the following error:

Error Code: 453: You currently have access to a subset of Twitter API v2 endpoints and limited v1.1 endpoints (e.g. media post, oauth) only. If you need access to this endpoint, you may need a different access level. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/product

I am currently using the free version on developer.twitter.com.

Code:

import tweepy

# Authenticate to Twitter
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("CONSUMER_KEY", "CONSUMER_SECRET")
auth.set_access_token("ACCESS_TOKEN", "ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET")

# Create API object
api = tweepy.API(auth)

try:
    api.verify_credentials()
    print("Authentication OK")
except:
    print("Error during authentication")

# Create a tweet
api.update_status("content of tweet")

In this link, the right access is described as follows:

Free

• For write-only use cases and testing the Twitter API
• Rate limited access to v2 tweet posting and media upload endpoints
• 1,500 Tweets per month - posting limit at the app level
• 1 app ID
• Login with Twitter

And this is error log:

Authentication OK

Traceback (most recent call last): File "...\create_tweet.py", line 19, in api.update_status('content of tweet') File "...\tweepy\api.py", line 46, in wrapper
return method(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:...\tweepy\api.py", line 979, in update_status return self.request( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:...\tweepy\api.py", line 271, in request
raise Forbidden(resp) tweepy.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden 453 - You currently have access to a subset of Twitter API v2 endpoints and limited v1.1 endpoints (e.g. media post, oauth) only. If you need access to this endpoint, you may need a different access level. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/product

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments under your question, it is possible to post tweets using V2 endpoints. These endpoints are supported by tweepy, and a working code sample would be as follows:

import tweepy
    
client = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key=API_KEY,
    consumer_secret=API_KEY_SECRET,
    access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN,
    access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
)

client.create_tweet(text='Test.')

Edit 1: note that creating a tweet with duplicate content will result with tweepy.errors.Forbidden: 403 Forbidden.

Edit 2: Place yourself in tab Free on https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/products, and make sure that your project is listed there. Your app has to be under the project, i.e. it can't be standalone app anymore.