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.followers()
The followers() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the specified user’s followers ordered in which they were added.
Syntax : API.followers(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 IDReturns : a list of objects of the class User
Example 1 :The followers() method returns the 20 most recent followers.
# 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 screen_name of the targeted user screen_name = "neveropen" # printing the latest 20 followers of the user for follower in api.followers(screen_name): print(follower.screen_name) |
Output :
ManojChevula davidasem_ rajneesosho sl_jens Sandeep06081 abdulwhabalras2 chryptografio _Mohit_Rajput_ elamineyamani abhiSharma0311 PawanYa87321156 yagneshmb yogeekabhi DarioGallardo2 imharsan MOHAMMA18757894 ArunKum79855492 ans_human_ap 1nonlyabhi
Example 2: More than 20 followers can be accessed using the Cursor() method.
# the screen_name of the targeted user screen_name = "neveropen" # getting only 30 followers for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers, screen_name).items(30): print(follower.screen_name) |
Output :
mr_manav852 MohsinI09002010 educatorly JimXu_artist JaiHin303 Indrajeet307 sainisajal147 aryangarg22 Ashutos11691851 ManojChevula davidasem_ osho957 sl_jens Sandeep06081 abdulwhabalras2 chryptografio _Mohit_Rajput_ elamineyamani abhiSharma0311 PawanYa87321156 yagneshmb yogeekabhi DarioGallardo2 imharsan MOHAMMA18757894 ArunKum79855492 ans_human_ap 1nonlyabhi SimplicitySol2 prateekmaj21
Example 3: Counting the number of followers.
# the screen_name of the targeted user screen_name = "neveropen" # getting all the followers c = tweepy.Cursor(api.followers, screen_name) # counting the number of followers count = 0for follower in c.items(): count += 1print(screen_name + " has " + str(count) + " followers.") |
Output :
neveropen has 17338 followers.
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