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[twitter-api-cdsw-solutions] / solution-followers-2-cursor.py

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+# For each of your followers, find out how many followers they have.
+
+import encoding_fix
+import tweepy
+from twitter_authentication import CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
+import time
+
+auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
+auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
+
+api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)
+
+user = api.get_user("makoshark")
+
+# I found the list of functions in Tweepy here:
+#   https://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.2.0/api.html
+
+# I found the idea of how to the user the Cursor here:
+#   https://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.2.0/cursor_tutorial.html
+
+follower_ids = []
+for page in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers_ids, screen_name="makoshark").pages():
+    for follower in page:
+        follower_ids.append(follower)
+
+
+# the answer is using the api.lookup_users() code. unfortunately, this
+# seems to only work with 100 users at a time. the following code makes that
+# work
+counter = 0
+tmp_ids = []
+users = []
+for follower in follower_ids:
+    tmp_ids.append(follower)
+    counter = counter + 1
+
+    # if we've hit 100, we grab data and then reset things and keep going
+    if counter == 100:
+        tmp_users = api.lookup_users(user_ids=tmp_ids)
+        users = users + tmp_users
+
+        counter = 0
+        tmp_ids = []
+
+# run once more when we're done
+tmp_users = api.lookup_users(user_ids=tmp_ids)
+users = users + tmp_users
+
+# run through and print out the list of followers
+for user in users:
+    print("%s : %s" % (user.screen_name, user.followers_count))
+
+