Reply to Tweet with Tweepy - Python

Question

I can't seem to get tweepy to work with replying to a specific tweet:

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)  api = tweepy.API(auth)  ### at this point I've grabbed the tweet and loaded it to JSON...  tweetId = tweet['results'][0]['id']  api.update_status('My status update',tweetId) 

The api says it takes optional parameters and in_reply_to_status_id is the first, but it seems to be ignoring it altogether. This script will post an updated status, but it does not link it as a reply to the tweetId that I'm passing.

API for reference: http://code.google.com/p/tweepy/wiki/APIReference#update_status

Anyone have any ideas? I feel like I'm missing something simple here...

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just posting the solution so no someone else suffers the way I did. Twitter updated the API and added an option named auto_populate_reply_metadata

All you need to do is set that to true, and the leave the rest as should be. Here is a sample:

api.update_status(status = 'your reply', in_reply_to_status_id = tweetid , auto_populate_reply_metadata=True) 

Also, the status_id is the long set of digits at the end of the tweet URL. Good Luck!

Answer 2

I ran into the same problem, but luckily I found the solution. You just need to include the user's screen_name in the tweet:

api.update_status('@<username> My status update', tweetId)