In this article we will see how we can get number of statuses/tweets a user has tweeted/updated. The statuses_count attribute provides us with an integer which denotes the number of statuses the user has posted.
Identifying the date when a user was created in the GUI :
In the above mentioned profile, number of statuses the user has posted : 13.2K (13, 200+)
In order to get the number of statuses a user has posted, 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 statuses_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 statuses_count attribute statuses_count = user.statuses_count print("The number of statuses the user has posted are : " + str(statuses_count)) |
Output :
The number of statuses the user has posted are : 13239
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 statuses_count attribute statuses_count = user.statuses_count print("The number of statuses the user has posted are : " + str(statuses_count)) |
Output :
The number of statuses the user has posted are : 2265
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