Twitter is a popular social network where users share messages called tweets. Twitter allows us to mine the data of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy. The data will be tweets extracted from the user. The first thing to do is get the consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access secret from twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.
API.search_users()
The search_users()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to run a search based on a query and get users matching that query, similar to the Find People button.
Syntax : API.search_users(q, count)
Parameters :
q : the text to be searched
count : specifies the number of users to retrieve, cannot be greater than 20, the default value is 20Returns : a list of objects of the class User
Example 1 :By default search_users()
retrieves 20 users.
# import the module import tweepy # assign the values accordingly consumer_key = "" consumer_secret = "" access_token = "" access_token_secret = "" # authorization of consumer key and consumer secret auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) # set access to user's access key and access secret auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) # calling the api api = tweepy.API(auth) # the query to be searched q = "Lazyroar" # search the query users = api.search_users(q) # print the users retrieved for user in users: print (user.screen_name) |
Output :
GeeksOUT GWOBorg GeeksOfColor Lazyroararesexy WeatherGeeks CoachingGeeks DealsForGeeks TwinCitiesGeeks RetroGameGeeks BuddhistGeeks KevinGeeksOut mcrgirlLazyroar AirplaneGeeks AirlineGeeks Lazyroar_3d GeeksGamersCom javacodeLazyroar wearemovieLazyroar The_GWW GeeksRoom
Example 2: Using the count parameter to retrieve less than 20 users.
# the query to be searched q = "neveropen" # number of users to be retrieved count = 3 # search the query users = api.search_users(q, count) # print the users retrieved for user in users: print (user.screen_name) |
Output :
neveropen gfgvideos gfg_reader
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