What does a CRITICAL:root:twint.get:User: Error mean?

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I'm a beginner with coding.

I'm trying to scrape tweets from a Twitter account.

I'm getting the following error when I run my code: CRITICAL:root:twint.get:User:

Here is the code that I'm running:

import twint 

config = twint.Config()
    # Search tweets tweeted by user 'BarackObama'
config.Username = "BarackObama"
    # Limit search results to 20
config.Limit = 20
    # Return tweets that were published after Jan 1st, 2020
config.Since = "2020-01-1 20:30:15"
    # Formatting the tweets
config.Format = "Tweet Id {id}, tweeted at {time}, {date}, by {username} says: {tweet}"
    # Storing tweets in a csv file
config.Store_csv = True
config.Output = "Barack Obama"    

twint.run.Search(config)

Does this error mean it's a problem with Twint, or is there a mistake in my code?

Thank you!

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2 Answers

I'm a beginner as well, trying to learn python as a tool for Digital History in Brazil. I was getting the same problem (only when using c.Username parameter). I solved running pip3 install --upgrade -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint

I hope it works for you.

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The solution is in modifying user.py in the twint source, and replace lines with a try and except statement.

try:
    _usr.name = ur['data']['user']['legacy']['name']
except:
    _usr.name = ''
try:
    _usr.username = ur['data']['user']['legacy']['screen_name']
except:
    _usr.username = ''
try:
    _usr.bio = ur['data']['user']['legacy']['description']
except:
    _usr.bio = ''
try:
    _usr.location = ur['data']['user']['legacy']['location']
except:
    _usr.location = ''
try: 
    _usr.url = ur['data']['user']['legacy']['url']
except:
    _usr.url = ''
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