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 the Twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.
API.show_friendship()
The show_friendship() method of the API class in Tweepy module is used to get the detailed relationship between two users.
Syntax : API.show_friendship(source_id / source_screen_name, target_id / target_screen_name)
Parameters :
- source_id : specifies the ID of the user 1.
- source_screen_name : specifies the screen name of the user 1.
- target_id : specifies the ID of the user 2.
- target_screen_name : specifies the screen name of the user 2.
Returns : an object of the class Friendship
Example 1 : Analyzing friendships by using the screen names.
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)# screen name of the account 1source_screen_name = "Twitter"# screen name of the account 2target_screen_name = "TwitterIndia"# getting the friendship detailsfriendship = api.show_friendship(source_screen_name = source_screen_name, target_screen_name = target_screen_name)print("Is " + friendship[0].screen_name + " followed by " + friendship[1].screen_name, end = "? : ")if friendship[0].followed_by == False: print("No")else: print("Yes")print("Is " + friendship[0].screen_name + " following " + friendship[1].screen_name, end = "? : ")if friendship[0].following == False: print("No")else: print("Yes") |
Output :
Is Twitter followed by TwitterIndia? : Yes Is Twitter following TwitterIndia? : No
Example 2 : Analyzing friendships by using the user IDs.
Python3
# user ID of the account 1source_id = 14230524# user ID of the account 2target_id = 34507480# getting the friendship detailsfriendship = api.show_friendship(source_id = source_id, target_id = target_id)print("The screen name of user 1 is : " + friendship[0].screen_name)print("The screen name of user 2 is : " + friendship[1].screen_name)print("Is " + friendship[0].screen_name + " followed by " + friendship[1].screen_name, end = "? : ")if friendship[0].followed_by == False: print("No")else: print("Yes")print("Is " + friendship[0].screen_name + " following " + friendship[1].screen_name, end = "? : ")if friendship[0].following == False: print("No")else: print("Yes") |
Output :
The screen name of user 1 is : ladygaga The screen name of user 2 is : ArianaGrande Is ladygaga followed by ArianaGrande? : Yes Is ladygaga following ArianaGrande? : No
