Using Tweety in a Flask App

[emirhanyuce]

Hey everyone,

I have been trying to use Tweety inside a Flask App for a small project, where I want to help my non-programmer friends searching tweets with a simple WebApp. The app works on my local just fine does it's tasks, but when I deployed it I got the following error and cannot sign in to accounts I used the library to search for tweets. I intentionally hid the username and password.

tweety.exceptions.ActionRequired: Enter your phone number or email address. There was unusual login activity on your account. To help keep your account safe, please enter your phone number (start with country code, e.g. +1) or email address to verify it’s you.

2025-02-26 08:05:32 - twitter_scraper - ERROR - Error with account [username, pwd ]: API call failed

Has anybody got any experience using the library in a hosted backend, how can I avoid getting this error?

[mahrtayyab]

ActionRequired occurs when the login process requires some additional information to complete the login from Twitter.

It could have multiple solutions

1. using try except block , send the additional information while logging in.
2. use cookies or auth_token to login

Can you please post your code snippet for better understanding.

[emirhanyuce]

Thanks for the fast reply here are the relevant parts on how I sign in

# Create a global TwitterAsync instance
twitter_app = TwitterAsync("session")

....
async def call_api(account, query, max_pages=MAX_PAGES_PER_REQUEST):
    global twitter_app
    ....
    login_result = await twitter_app.sign_in(account[0], account[1])

Hence, I am trying to host this on cloud I do not want to use cookies or auth_token because we need to check them if they are expired or not and refresh it periodically. Is it possible or sufficient to provide the email address of the account hence it is asking for it in the error message, if yes what should be the format to provide it with extra arg?

[mahrtayyab]

from tweety import TwitterAsync

app = TwitterAsync("session")
try:
    await app.sign_in(username, password, extra=extra)
except ActionRequired as e:
    action = input(f"Action Required :> {str(e.message)} : ")
    await app.sign_in(username, password, extra=action)

More about to signing here