R - httr - Twitter Error 401 using GET providing Authorization Error

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This is the code that provides the error, along with the output from it. I'm positive my access keys and tokens are correct. I triple checked them. I'm guessing my query may be wrong somehow? My guess was defaulting since_id=0 for my first run, but removal of that provides the same error.

mentions = GET(final_url, sig)
mentions

Response [https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=@lolhauntzer&until=2016-01-20&since_id=0&result_type=recent&lang=en&count=100]
Date: 2016-01-19 05:09
Status: 401
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Size: 64 B

I just pasted your URL into my Chrome and got a `215` `Bad Authentication data` response. — Tim Biegeleisen, Jan 19 '16 at 05:17

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 05:17

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Woops. Brain lapse. Need to replace the "@" in the URL with "%40". The "@" works on my other workstation though, which is kind of baffling right now.

answered Jan 19 '16 at 05:17

Jibril

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Your other workstation is _encoding_ the `@` symbol, which apparently was not happening in the second case. – Tim Biegeleisen Jan 19 '16 at 05:18

R - httr - Twitter Error 401 using GET providing Authorization Error

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