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.get_list()
The get_list() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to fetch a specified list.
Syntax : API.get_list(list_id/slug, owner_id/owner_screen_name)
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.
Returns : an object of class List
Example 1 : Fetch a list and print its name and description.
# 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 ID of the list list_id = # fetching the list list = api.get_list(list_id = list_id) # printing the information print("The name of the list is : " + list.name) print("The description of the list is : " + list.description) |
Output :
The name of the list is : Modified List The description of the list is : This list is to test the Twitter API.
Example 2 : Exception is raised on fetching a non-existent list.
# the ID of the non-existent list list_id = # fetching the list list = api.get_list(list_id = list_id) |
Output :
raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
tweepy.error.TweepError: [{'code': 34, 'message': 'Sorry, that page does not exist.'}]
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