The old version of Tweepy I was previously using was outdated and Twitter api had updated endpoints, namely, media_upload and update_status that accepted media_ids.
Here's what I did to update/install Tweepy v3.3.0 on GAE:
DISCLAIMER: These instructions are by no means the best way of doing this. Most steps were simply googled. These posts are more for self reference if I ever encounter the problem again.
I decided to write a post since the closest help I found online directly related to this issue was:
http://discuss.tweepy.org/t/tweepy-with-the-google-app-engine/146/2
Adding python libraries to appengine
You may want to create a new folder of thirdparty libraries that you will be adding very shortly if you haven't already.
Follow the instructions here:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2354273
or a summarized version below:
Create a new directory in your root folder called /thirdparty.
Your root folder is where you would have your app.yaml file.
Inside /thirdparty, create an empty __init__.py file.
In your root folder, create a new file - i.e. fix_path.py
import os
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "thirdparty"))
and in your main.py, add
import fix_path
before all other imports.
Installing Tweepy:
I cloned the tweepy into a new directory
git clone https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git
And copied the tweepy folder to /thirdparty (i.e you would have /thirdparty/tweepy/api.py)
If you try running your dev server now, it will complain:
ImportError: No module named six
So go to
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six/ and download the tar file. Unzip it and copy the six.py file straight into your /thirdparty directory. (i.e. /thirdparty/six.py)
If that's all working, then the next error you'll see is:
ImportError: No module named requests
git clone git://github.com/kennethreitz/requests.git
Copy the requests folder into your /thirdparty folder. (i.e. you would have /thirdpary/requests/api.py)
If you see:
ImportError: No module named 'requests.packages.urllib3'
Try deleting some of the *.pyc files. Don't know if that was usual, but it worked for me.
Next error:
ImportError: cannot import name certs
Kind sir here solved this one for me:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pythonforfacebook/7aOvlz6SvPg/wrkGSyK1ij0J
Add ssl to your app.yaml libraries.
libraries:
- name: webapp2
version: latest
- name: ssl
version: latest
Moving on:
ImportError: No module named requests_oauthlib
git clone https://github.com/requests/requests-oauthlib.git
Copy the requests_oauth folder into your /thirdparty folder.
Next error, almost there:
ImportError: No module named oauthlib.common
git clone https://github.com/idan/oauthlib.git
Copy the oauthlib folder into your /thirdparty folder. (i.e. You would have /thirdparty/oauthlib/common.py)
and.. done.
