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.blocks()
The blocks() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get a list of all the users blocked by the authenticated user.
Syntax : API.blocks()
Parameters : None
Returns : a list of objects of class User
Example 1 : Finding the number of users blocked by the authenticated user using the blocks() method.
# 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) # getting the blocked users blocked_users = api.blocks() # printing the number of blocked users print(len(blocked_users)) |
Output :
63
Example 2 : Finding the screen names of all users blocked by the authenticated user using the blocks() method.
# getting the blocked users blocked_users = api.blocks() # printing the screen names of the blocked users for user in blocked_users: print(user.screen_name) |
Output :
kumailn NorbertElekes fjamie013 Trendulkar iShivamDubey KapilSharmaK9 gaywonk mehdirhasan Ilhan Begin_Humor iamsrk rishibagree Turki_alalshikh ahrefs devduttmyth Francesgracella realshooterdadi h3h3productions indiantweeter AdnanSamiLive AjitKDoval_FAN piyushpatriotic TheSamirAbbas sonalkalra MsBlaireWhite vishal_ketto fay_alif vivekoberoi waglenikhil AMMARlSE AyushPa89314914 MSArenaOfficial DilipVa37961599 sunilku31690409 ViratGang narendramodi177 katrinakaif_4 tariqnasheed Apple HolyKaaba AisiTaisiDemo sanjivbhatt saudipost arifkhanesm BeingSalmanKhan AcharyaPramodk iAnkurSingh HinduDharma1 WakeUpHindu bbcnewstelugu cnni bbcnewspunjabi bbcnewsmarathi AtheistRepublic rajshah Shehzad_Ind siddaramaiah FeminismInIndia RVCJ_FB MFSahiHai TheQuint BilalMadni13 AmbedkarCaravan
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