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.favorites()
The favorites() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the liked statuses of a user, 20 at a time.
Syntax : API.favorites(id / user_id / screen_name)
Parameters : Only use one of the 3 options:
- id : specifies the ID or the screen name of the user.
- user_id : specifies the ID of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.
- screen_name : specifies the screen name of the user, useful to differentiate accounts when a valid screen name is also a user ID.
Returns : a list of objects of class Status
Example 1 : Using favorites() method without any parameter returns the likes statuses of the authenticated user.
# 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 liked statuses favorites = api.favorites() # printing the screen names of the status posters for status in favorites: print(status.user.screen_name) |
Output :
oldschoolmonk notcapnamerica sardesairajdeep Artie_Pavlov BabitaPhogat notcapnamerica DerekGreaser MarkDice AOC notcapnamerica coolfunnytshirt AOC CNMparody marwilliamson YourAnonCentral SanjeevSanskrit 4TheCulture____ tify330 AOC matthewferner
Example 2 : Using favorites() method with the parameter screen name.
# screen name of the user screen_name = "neveropen" # getting the liked statuses favorites = api.favorites(screen_name) # printing the screen names of the status posters for status in favorites: print(status.user.screen_name) |
Output :
abhinav26925233 adieti_sharma vc90 KasatNiraj harshitabambure vc90 dns4u bhagat_dinesh BafnaTweets malgattirajat adieti_sharma c_deep07 Its_username_yo Rituraj97082167 Martial_Coder baniya_buddy_ burgerNpizza YehTuneKyaKiya tweetsbybabua shivankgtm
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