Python – API.lookup_users() in Tweepy
Twitter is a popular social network where users share messages called tweets. Twitter allows us to mine the data of any user using Twitter API or Tweepy. The data will be tweets extracted from the user. The first thing to do is get the consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access secret from twitter developer available easily for each user. These keys will help the API for authentication.
API.lookup_users()
The lookup_users()
method of the API
class in Tweepy module is used to get a list of user objects for up to 100 users per request.
Syntax : API.lookup_users(parameters)
Parameters :
- user_ids : a list of user IDs
- screen_names : a list screen names
Returns : a list of objects of the class User
Example 1 :Using the lookup_users()
method with user_ids parameter.
# 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) # list of user_ids user_ids = [ 57741058 , 4802800777 , 1037141442 ] # getting the users by user_ids users = api.lookup_users(user_ids) # printing the user details for user in users: print ( "The id is : " + str (user. id )) print ( "The screen name is : " + user.screen_name, end = "\n\n" ) |
Output :
The id is : 57741058 The screen name is : w3wiki The id is : 4802800777 The screen name is : PracticeGfG The id is : 1037141442 The screen name is : BeginnerQuiz
Example 2: Using the lookup_users()
method with screen_names parameter.
# list of screen_names screen_names = [ "w3wiki" , "PracticeGfG" , "BeginnerQuiz" ] # getting the users by screen_names users = api.lookup_users(screen_names = screen_names) # printing the user details for user in users: print ( "The id is : " + str (user. id )) print ( "The screen name is : " + user.screen_name, end = "\n\n" ) |
Output :
The id is : 57741058 The screen name is : w3wiki The id is : 4802800777 The screen name is : PracticeGfG The id is : 1037141442 The screen name is : BeginnerQuiz