Issue:

As you can see in this tweet, the bot posted a tweet using a numeric hashtag (which is not valid).

Solution:

We should edit the gen_hashtags(s) function to check if the hashtag to be added is numeric or not

Sometimes Tweepy could trigger a Tweet Duplicate Error if the last tweet posted and the new one you are trying to post is the same or almost the same.

For example, if an artist increases his subs by 0.2 in one hour, the Bot will try to post two tweets almost the same but with a single digit changed. This could lead to that error.

To fix it we need to catch the error and continue execution without posting anything on Twitter. This way we can still continue to edit the contents of channel.csv. If the execution is terminated due to this error, the side effect is that the channel.csv is not written with the new data and could possibly lead to more errors like this.

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 211, in <module>
    channels = update_subscribers(response, channels)
  File "main.py", line 90, in update_subscribers
    subs_notify_change(channel)
  File "main.py", line 101, in subs_notify_change
    twitter_post("{} reached {} Million subscribers on YouTube\n@{} #music #youtube #stats".format(channel["name"], int(channel["subs"])/1000000, channel["username"]))
  File "main.py", line 155, in twitter_post
    api.update_status(message)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/api.py", line 205, in update_status
    return bind_api(
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 253, in _call
    return method.execute()
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.8.6/x64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 234, in execute
    raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
tweepy.error.TweepError: [{'code': 187, 'message': 'Status is a duplicate.'}]