In this article we will see how we can get the number of times a tweet/status has been retweeted. The retweet_count attribute of the Status object provides us with the number of times a tweet has been retweeted .
Identifying the number of times a tweet has been retweeted in the GUI :
The above mentioned status has been retweeted 4 times.
In order to get the number of times a status has been retweeted, we have to do the following :
- Identify the status ID of the status from the GUI.
- Get the Status object of the status using the
get_status()method with the status ID.- From this object, fetch the retweet_count attribute present in it.
Example 1 : Consider the following status :
We will use the status ID to fetch the status. The status ID of the above mentioned status is 1272771459249844224.
# 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 status id = 1272771459249844224 # fetching the status status = api.get_status(id) # fetching the retweet_count attribute retweet_count = status.retweet_count print("The number of time the status has been retweeted is : " + str(retweet_count)) |
Output :
The number of time the status has been retweeted is : 0
Example 2 : Consider the following status :
We will use the status ID to fetch the status. The status ID of the above mentioned status is 1272479136133627905.
# the ID of the status id = 1272479136133627905 # fetching the status with extended tweet_mode status = api.get_status(id, tweet_mode = "extended") # fetching the retweet_count attribute retweet_count = status.retweet_count print("The number of time the status has been retweeted is : " + str(retweet_count)) |
Output :
The number of time the status has been retweeted is : 22
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