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.list_subscribers()
The list_subscribers() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used fetch the subscribers of a specified list.
Syntax : API.list_subscribers(parameters)
Parameters :
- list_id : ID of the list.
- slug : slug of the list.
- owner_id : ID of the owner of the list.
- owner_screen_name : screen name of the owner of the list.
- count : number of subscribers to be fetched.
- skip_statuses : boolean determining whether to return statuses or not.
Returns : a list of objects of class User
Example 1 : Printing the screen names of the 20 latest subscribers.
Python3
# import the moduleimport tweepy# assign the values accordinglyconsumer_key = ""consumer_secret = ""access_token = ""access_token_secret = ""# authorization of consumer key and consumer secretauth = 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 slug of the listslug = "thought-leaders"# the screen name of the owner of the listowner_screen_name = "kitson"# fetching the subscriberssubscribers = api.list_subscribers(slug = slug, owner_screen_name = owner_screen_name)# printing the screen names of the subscribersfor subscriber in subscribers: print(subscriber.screen_name) |
Output :
Saddds305 rachellelive hazemkhattab8 constantine_fry rockivy4 edwinealmonte satishvkvn puppies221122 55_CancriF jameschancepro1 LiptakCarl TheMarkShaw mitch_plzzzz ahrimango nidhishetty jmpena33 TuttleRose rgolwalkar BillRingle Nellie_I_Am
Example 2 : Using the count parameter to fetch only a specified number of subscribers.
Python3
# the slug of the listslug = "thought-leaders"# the screen name of the owner of the listowner_screen_name = "kitson"# number of subscribers to be fetchedcount = 3# fetching the subscriberssubscribers = api.list_subscribers(slug = slug, owner_screen_name = owner_screen_name, count = count)print("The number of subscribers fetched : " + str(len(subscribers))) |
Output :
The number of subscribers fetched : 3
