def getFollowing(self, user_id):
# first check if the user is marked as an exception
if self.isExceptionHappened(user_id):
return []
# otherwise crawl
w = CrawlWorker(self.token_queue)
following = w.getFollowing(user_id)
if not following: # if tweets are empty, it means some exception occurred
self.handleException(user_id)
return following
def getFollowing(self, user_id):
w = CrawlWorker(self.token_queue)
following_t = w.getFollowing(user_id = user_id)
return user_id, following_t