In this article we will see how we can get the number of followers of a user. The followers_count attribute provides us with an integer donating the number of followers the user account has.
Identifying the number of followers in the GUI :
In the above mentioned profile the number of followers are : 17.8K (17, 800+)
In order to get the number of followers we have to do the following :
- Identify the user ID or the screen name of the profile.
- Get the User object of the profile using the
get_user()method with the user ID or the screen name.- From this object, fetch the followers_count attribute present in it.
Example 1: Consider the following profile :
We will use the user ID to fetch the user. The user ID of the above mentioned profile is 57741058.
# 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 user id = 57741058 # fetching the user user = api.get_user(id) # fetching the followers_count followers_count = user.followers_count print("The number of followers of the user are : " + str(followers_count)) |
Output :
The number of followers of the user are : 17814
Example 2: Consider the following profile :
We will use the screen name to fetch the user. The screen name of the above mentioned profile is PracticeGfG.
# the screen name of the user screen_name = "PracticeGfG" # fetching the user user = api.get_user(screen_name) # fetching the followers_count followers_count = user.followers_count print("The number of followers of the user are : " + str(followers_count)) |
Output :
The number of followers of the user are : 2204
<!–
–>
Python – API.followers() in Tweepy
Python Tweepy – Getting the number of lists a user has been added to
Python Tweepy – Getting the number of tweets a user has liked
Python Tweepy – Getting the number of tweets a user has tweeted
Python Tweepy – Getting the number of friends of a user
Python Tweepy – Getting the screen name of a user
Python Tweepy – Getting the ID of a user
Python Tweepy – Getting the location of a user
Python Tweepy – Getting the name of a user
Python Tweepy – Getting the description of a user
Please Login to comment…