Невозможно получить данные с помощью Python-Twitter API

Question

Я пытаюсь использовать Python Twitter API ( https://github.com/bear/python-twitter) для извлечения данных из Twitter. Но все мои звонки получают ошибку

 import twitter
    api = twitter.Api()

    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
                      consumer_secret='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
                      access_token_key='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
                      access_token_secret='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
    print api.VerifyCredentials()





 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Users\arpit\Downloads\Desktop\mtp twitter\api.py", line 8, in <module>
    print api.VerifyCredentials()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twitter.py", line 3648, in VerifyCredentials
    json = self._FetchUrl(url, no_cache=True)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twitter.py", line 3992, in _FetchUrl
    response = opener.open(url, encoded_post_data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 400, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 1215, in https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
    URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>

Я за прокси-сервером. Как я могу все еще использовать этот API. Я пробовал Twython также, но сталкиваюсь с аналогичными проблемами