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Justin Henderson
13,739 PointsUsing Twitter API to grab followers from specific user i'ds?
Hello,
I am trying to grab followers from specific users using the GET followers/ids from Twitters REST API. I can get the code to execute, returns the following error message
NameError: name 'get_followers_ids' is not defined
My code is below, thank you for your help:
#!GET followers/ids
import logging
import time
import csv
import twython
import json
app_key = "" #REDACTED
app_secret = "" #REDACTED
oauth_token = "" #REDACTED
oauth_token_secret = "" #REDACTED
get_followers_ids('Cycled_md')
outfn = "twitter_user_data_%i.%i.%i.txt" % (now.month, now.day, now.year)
twitter = twython.Twython(app_key, app_secret, oauth_token, oauth_token_secret)
followers = twitter.get_followers_ids(screen_name = "Cylced_md")
with open('cycledfollowers.txt', 'a') as outfile:
for follower_id in followers:
print("Cycled_md follower:", follower_id)
json.dump(follower_id, outfile, sort_keys = True, indent = 4)
Justin Henderson
13,739 PointsThank you Kai,
That was careless of me. I did not even pay attention to that when I initially posted this. Much appreciated!
1 Answer
Max Hirsh
16,773 PointsI'm not familiar with Twitter's API, but would this be what you are looking for? https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/followers/ids
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsKai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 PointsI'm updating your post to remove your API keys. In the future, don't EVER include any of your keys, it essentially a password and other can use those credentials on your behalf.