def get_followers(user_id):
"""Takes a Twitter user ID as input, and returns that user's followers in the form of a list of Twitter IDs."""
base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json'
params = {'user_id': user_id, 'count': 5000}
all_followers = []
while True:
id_info = twitter_get(base_url, params, 60)
if id_info is None:
return None # something went wrong
elif id_info['next_cursor'] == 0:
return all_followers
else:
all_followers.extend(id_info['ids'])
params['cursor'] = id_info['next_cursor_str']
print '{0} followers retrieved so far.'.format(len(all_followers))
def get_screen_name_to_id_map(screen_names):
"""Takes a list of Twitter screen names as input, and returns a dictionary mapping lower-case screen names to IDs."""
base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json'
screen_name_to_id_map = {}
chunk_size = 100 # API call accepts 100 users at a time
for i in xrange(0, len(screen_names), chunk_size):
params = {'screen_name': ','.join(screen_names[i:i + chunk_size])}
users = twitter_get(base_url, params, 5)
if users is None:
return None # something went wrong
else:
for user in users:
screen_name_to_id_map[user['screen_name'].lower()] = user['id_str']
return screen_name_to_id_map
def get_followers(user_id):
"""Takes a Twitter user ID as input, and returns that user's followers in the form of a list of Twitter IDs."""
base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json'
params = {'user_id': user_id, 'count': 5000}
all_followers = []
while True:
id_info = twitter_get(base_url, params, 60)
if id_info is None:
return None # something went wrong
elif id_info['next_cursor'] == 0:
return all_followers
else:
all_followers.extend(id_info['ids'])
params['cursor'] = id_info['next_cursor_str']
print '{0} followers retrieved so far.'.format(len(all_followers))
def get_screen_name_to_id_map(screen_names):
"""Takes a list of Twitter screen names as input, and returns a dictionary mapping lower-case screen names to IDs."""
base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json'
screen_name_to_id_map = {}
chunk_size = 100 # API call accepts 100 users at a time
for i in xrange(0, len(screen_names), chunk_size):
params = {'screen_name': ','.join(screen_names[i:i + chunk_size])}
users = twitter_get(base_url, params, 5)
if users is None:
return None # something went wrong
else:
for user in users:
screen_name_to_id_map[
user['screen_name'].lower()] = user['id_str']
return screen_name_to_id_map
def __get_tweets(params):
"""Takes a Twitter user id (a string) or screen name as input (screen_name takes precedent) and returns all of that user's tweets, going back as far as the API will let you."""
base_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json'
params['count'] = 200
all_tweets = []
while True:
chunk_of_tweets = twitter_get(base_url, params, 5)
if chunk_of_tweets is None:
return None # something went wrong
elif len(chunk_of_tweets) == 0:
return all_tweets
else:
all_tweets.extend(chunk_of_tweets)
min_id_found = min([tweet['id'] for tweet in chunk_of_tweets])
params['max_id'] = str(min_id_found - 1) # we want tweets with IDs lower than min_id_found
print '{0} tweets retrieved so far.'.format(len(all_tweets))
def __get_tweets(params):
"""Takes a Twitter user id (a string) or screen name as input (screen_name takes precedent) and returns all of that user's tweets, going back as far as the API will let you."""
base_url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json"
params["count"] = 200
all_tweets = []
while True:
chunk_of_tweets = twitter_get(base_url, params, 5)
if chunk_of_tweets is None:
return None # something went wrong
elif len(chunk_of_tweets) == 0:
return all_tweets
else:
all_tweets.extend(chunk_of_tweets)
min_id_found = min([tweet["id"] for tweet in chunk_of_tweets])
params["max_id"] = str(min_id_found - 1) # we want tweets with IDs lower than min_id_found
print "{0} tweets retrieved so far.".format(len(all_tweets))