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.list_members()
The list_members() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to fetch all the members from a specified list.
Syntax : API.list_members(parameters) 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 : a list of objects of class User
Example 1 : Print the screen names of all the members of the list.
Python3
# import the moduleimport tweepy# assign the values accordinglyconsumer_key = ""consumer_secret = ""access_token = ""access_token_secret = ""# authorization of consumer key and consumer secretauth = 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 listlist_id =# fetching the membersmembers = api.list_members(list_id = list_id)# printing the member screen namesfor member in members: print(member.screen_name) |
Output :
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Example 2 : Count the number of members in a list.
Python3
# the ID of the listlist_id =# fetching the membersmembers = api.list_members(list_id = list_id)# printing the number of membersprint(len(members)) |
Output :
3
