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.friends()
The friends() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the specified user’s friends(the users they are following) ordered in which they were added.
Syntax : API.friends(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
If no user is specified it defaults to the authenticated user.Returns : a list of objects of the class User
Example 1 :The friends() method returns the 20 most recent friends.
# 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 = "TwitterIndia" # printing the latest 20 friends of the user for friend in api.friends(screen_name): print(friend.screen_name) |
Output :
misskaul rajyasabhatv DDNewslive TwitterMedia abpmajhatv htTweets News18Haryana jack BBCHindi the_hindu mentalhealthind ProKabaddi firstpost livemint hcmariwala mathrubhumi PTUshaOfficial anubhabhonsle kmmalleswari DipaKarmakar
Example 2: More than 20 friends can be accessed using the Cursor() method.
# the screen_name of the targeted user screen_name = "TwitterIndia" # getting only 30 friends for friend in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name).items(30): print(friend.screen_name) |
Output :
misskaul rajyasabhatv DDNewslive TwitterMedia abpmajhatv htTweets News18Haryana jack BBCHindi the_hindu mentalhealthind ProKabaddi firstpost livemint hcmariwala mathrubhumi PTUshaOfficial anubhabhonsle kmmalleswari DipaKarmakar NewIndianXpress M_Raj03 DDNational isro PTTVOnlineNews cricketnext thebetterindia AGSawant MahendraP_BJP DrRPNishank
Example 3: Counting the number of followers.
# the screen_name of the targeted user screen_name = "neveropen" # getting all the friends c = tweepy.Cursor(api.friends, screen_name) # counting the number of friends count = 0for friends in c.items(): count += 1print(screen_name + " has " + str(count) + " friends.") |
Output :
neveropen has 8 friends.
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